Wilkins, John, A discovery of a new world : or a discourse tending to prove, that 'tis probable there may be another Habitable World in the Moon ; with a discourse concerning the Probability of a Passage thither; unto which is added, a discourse concerning a New Planet, tending to prove, that 'tis probable our earth is one of the Planets

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2466" xml:space="preserve">’Tis an excellent Rule to be ob-
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            ſerved in all Diſputes, That Men
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            ſhould give ſoft Words and hard
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            Arguments; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2467" xml:space="preserve">that they would not ſo
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            much ſtrive to vex, as to convince an
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            Enemy. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2468" xml:space="preserve">If this were but diligently
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            practiſed in all Caſes, and on all
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            ſides, we might in a good meaſure
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            be freed from thoſe Vexations in
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            the ſearch of Truth, which the wiſe
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            Solomon, by his own experience did
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            ſo much complain of: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2469" xml:space="preserve">Eccleſ. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2470" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2471" xml:space="preserve">18.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2472" xml:space="preserve">In much Wiſdom there is much Grief; </s>
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            and he that increaſeth Knowledg, in-
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            creaſeth Sorrow.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2475" xml:space="preserve">To conclude: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2476" xml:space="preserve">Tho there ſhould
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            be nothing in this Diſcourſe con-
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            ducible to your Information and
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            Benefit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2477" xml:space="preserve">yet it may ſerve in the
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            Peruſal, as it did in the Compoſure,
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            for the recreation of ſuch leiſure
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            hours, as may conveniently be ſpa-
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            red from more weighty Employ-
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