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              the ſame Time; and we ſee the Time of the Deſcent from the grea­
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              ter altitude to be longer.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>This is too great an Evidence, too great a Facility
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              wherewith you manifeſt abſtruce Concluſions: this extream eaſi­
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              neſs rendreth them of leſſe value than they were whilſt they lay hid
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              under contrary appearances. </s>
              <s>I believe that the Generality of men
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              little preſſe thoſe Notions which are eaſily obtained, in compari­
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              ſon of thoſe about which men make ſo long and inexplicable alter­
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              cations.</s>
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>To thoſe which with great brevity and clarity ſhew the
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              fallacies of Propoſitions that have been commonly received for
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              true by the generality of people, it would be a very tolerable in­
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              jury to return them only ſlighting inſtead of thanks: but there is
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              much diſpleaſure and moleſtation in another certain affection
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              ſometimes found in ſome men, that pretending in the ſame Studies
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              at leaſt Parity with any whomſoever, do ſee that they have let
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              paſs ſuch and ſuch for true Concluſions, which afterwards by
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              another, with a ſhort and eaſie diſquiſition, have been detected and
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              convicted for falſe. </s>
              <s>I will not call that affection Envy, that is ac­
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              cuſtomed to convert in time to hatred and deſpite againſt the diſ­
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              coverers of ſuch Fallacies, but I will call it an itch, and a deſire to
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              be able rather to maintain their inveterate Errours, than to per­
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              mit the reception of new-diſcovered Truths. </s>
              <s>Which humour ſome­
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              times induceth them to write in contradiction of thoſe truths
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              which are but too perfectly known unto themſelves only to keep
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              the Reputation of others low in the opinion of the numerous and
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              ill-informed Vulgar. </s>
              <s>Of ſuch falſe Concluſions received for true,
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              and very eaſie to be confuted, I have heard no ſmall number from
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              our
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              Academick,
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              of ſome of which I have kept account.</s>
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              <s>SAGR. </s>
              <s>And you muſt not deprive us of them; but in due time
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              impart them to us, when a particular Meeting ſhall be appointed
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              for them. </s>
              <s>For the preſent, continuing the diſcourſe we are about,
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              I think that by this time we have eſtabliſhed the Definition of Mo­
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              tion uniformly Accelerate, treated of in the enſuing diſcourſes,
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              and it is this;</s>
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              A Motion Equable, or Vniformly Accelerate, we call that which
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              departing from Reſt ſuperadds equal Moments of Velocity in
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              equal Times.
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              <s>SALV. </s>
              <s>That Definition being confirmed, the Author asketh
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              and ſuppoſeth but one only Principle to be true, namely:</s>
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