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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          <head xml:id="echoid-head61" xml:space="preserve">To the Reader.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2443" xml:space="preserve">NOt to trouble you with an
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            titudes of Pamphlets which
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            are every day preſt into the World;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2444" xml:space="preserve">or an Apologie, why this was pub-
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            Matter for ſuch kind of Epiſtles): </s>
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            Let me in brief preadmoniſh you
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            ſomething concerning the chief
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            Scope and Manner of this follow-
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2447" xml:space="preserve">1. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s2448" xml:space="preserve">’Tis not the purpoſe of it, to
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s2449" xml:space="preserve">but rather to
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            remove thoſe common Prejudices,
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