Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660
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              table Reader, how much the ſtrange Confu­
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              ſions of this unhappy Nation, in the midſt
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              of which I have made and written theſe
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              Experiments, are apt to diſturb that calm­
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              neſs of Minde, and undiſtractedncſs of
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              Thoughts, that are wont to be requiſite to
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              Happy Speculations. </s>
              <s>But I preſume,
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              that by all theſe things put together, he
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              will readily perceive, That I have been
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              ſo far from following the Poets prudent
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              Counſel touching the ſlow Publication of
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              Books deſign'd to purchaſe credit by,
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              <s>—— Nonumque prematur in Annum </s>
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              that I ſuffer this Treatiſe to come abroad
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              into the World with a multitude of Diſad­
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              vantages.
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              But if it be demanded, why then I did
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              not make it fitter for the Preſs before I ſent
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              it thither? </s>
              <s>my Anſwer muſt be, That not
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              at firſt imagining that this ſort of Experi­
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              ments would prove any thing near ſo trouble­
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              ſome, either to make, or to Record, as I
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              afterwards found them, I did, to engage
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              the Printer to diſpatch, promiſe him to ſend
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              him the whole Epiſtle in a very ſhort time:
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              So that although now and then the occaſional
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              vacations of the Preſs, by reaſon of Feſti-
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