Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660

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              A Digreſsion containing ſome
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              Doubts touching Reſpi­
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              ration.
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              <s>I Fear Your Lordſhip will now expect,
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              that to theſe Experiments I ſhould add
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              my Reflections on them, and attempt,
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              by their aſſiſtance, to reſolve the Diffi­
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              culties that occur about Reſpiration; ſince
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              at the beginning I acknowledg'd a further
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              Enquiry into the Nature of that, to have
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              been my Deſign in the related Tryals.
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              <s>But I have yet, becauſe of the inconve­
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              nient Seaſon of the Year, made ſo few
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              Experiments, and have been ſo little ſa­
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              tisfied by thoſe I have been able to make,
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              that they have hitherto made Reſpiration
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              appear to me rather a more, then a leſs
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              Myſterious thing, then it did before. </s>
              <s>But
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              yet, ſince they have furniſh'd me with
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              ſome ſuch new Conſiderations, concern­
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              ing the uſe of the Air, as confirms me in
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              my Diffidence of the Truth of what is
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              commonly believ'd touching that matter;
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              That I may not appear ſullen or lazy, I
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              am content not to decline employing a </s>
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