Boyle, Robert, New experiments physico-mechanicall, touching the spring of the air and its effects, 1660

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              And indeed, having, for Reaſons elſe­
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              where deduc'd, purpoſely kept my ſelf a
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              ſtranger to moſt of the new
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              Hypotheſes
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              in
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              Philoſophy, I am ſenſible enough that the
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              Engine I treat of has prevail'd with me to
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              write of ſome ſubjects which are ſufficient­
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              ly remote from thoſe I have been moſt con­
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              verſant in. </s>
              <s>And having been reduc'd to
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              write the greateſt part of the enſuing Letter
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              at a diſtance, not onely from my Library,
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              but from my own Manuſcripts, I cannot
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              but fear that my Diſcourſes do not onely
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              want many choice things wherewith the
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              Learned Writings of others might have en­
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              riched or imbelliſhed them: But that partly
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              for this Reaſon, and partly for that touch'd
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              upon a little before, It is poſsible I may
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              have mention'd ſome Notions already pub­
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              liſh'd by others, without taking notice of the
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              Authors, not out of any deſign to defraud
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              deſerving Men, but for want of knowing
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              ſuch particulars to have been already pub­
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              liſh'd by them: Eſpecially the Experiments
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              of our Engine being themſelves ſufficient
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              to hint ſuch Notions as we build upon
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              them.
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              The order of the Experiments every
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              Reader may alter, as ſuits beſt with his own
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              Deſign in peruſing them; For not onely all
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