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

Page concordance

< >
Scan Original
61 49
62 50
63 51
64 52
65 53
66 54
67 55
68 56
69 57
70 58
71 59
72 60
73 61
74 42
75 63
76 65
77 65
78 66
79 67
80 68
81 69
82 70
83 71
84 72
85 73
86 74
87 75
88 76
89 77
90 78
< >
page |< < of 370 > >|
    <echo version="1.0RC">
      <text xml:lang="en" type="free">
        <div xml:id="echoid-div186" type="section" level="1" n="47">
          <pb file="0177" n="177" rhead="To the Reader"/>
          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2456" xml:space="preserve">2. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2457" xml:space="preserve">For the Manner. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2458" xml:space="preserve">It is not
              <lb/>
            maintained with ſuch Heat and
              <lb/>
            Religion, as if every one that reads
              <lb/>
            it, were preſently bound to yield up
              <lb/>
            his aſſent: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2459" xml:space="preserve">But as it is in other
              <lb/>
            Wars, where Victory cannot be had,
              <lb/>
            Men muſt be content with Peace:
              <lb/>
            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2460" xml:space="preserve">So likewiſe is it in this, and ſhould
              <lb/>
            be in all other Philoſophical Con-
              <lb/>
            tentions. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2461" xml:space="preserve">If there be nothing able to
              <lb/>
            convince and ſatisfy the indifferent
              <lb/>
            Reader, he may ſtill enjoy his own
              <lb/>
            Opinion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2462" xml:space="preserve">All Men have not the
              <lb/>
            ſame way of apprehending things; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2463" xml:space="preserve">
              <lb/>
            but according to the variety of their
              <lb/>
            Temper, Cuſtom, and Abilities,
              <lb/>
            their Underſtandings are ſeverally
              <lb/>
            faſhioned to different Aſſents: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2464" xml:space="preserve">
              <lb/>
            Which had it been but well conſi-
              <lb/>
            dered by ſome of our hot
              <note symbol="*" position="right" xlink:label="note-0177-01" xlink:href="note-0177-01a" xml:space="preserve">Fromond.
                <lb/>
              Al Roſſe.</note>
            ſaries, they would not have ſhewed
              <lb/>
            more violence in oppoſing the Per-
              <lb/>
            ſons againſt whom they write, than
              <lb/>
            ſtrength in confuting the Cauſe.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2465" xml:space="preserve"/>
          </p>
        </div>
      </text>
    </echo>
Impressum