Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's, An essay on perspective
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            what Uſe ſuch an exceſſive Variety of Exam-
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            ples will be to them.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s70" xml:space="preserve">I believ’d then, that I might be able to
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            treat of this Art after another Manner:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s71" xml:space="preserve">And altho’ I know my ſelf to be much infe-
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            rior to ſeveral of thoſe who have written on
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            this Subject; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s72" xml:space="preserve">yet I am of Opinion, that if
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            Perſpective ſhould loſe any thing by me, on
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            account of my want of fudgment; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s73" xml:space="preserve">yet that
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            may be regain’d, perhaps, (and with In-
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            tereſt too) by my great Diligence in this Bu-
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            ſineſs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s75" xml:space="preserve">I have conſider’d, moreover, that the te-
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            dious Particulars, inherent to the Subject on
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            which I have choſen to write, will always
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            hinder Genius’s capable of great Matters,
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            from undertaking a Subject ſo little worthy
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            their Endeavours, and ſo barren of great
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            Diſcoveries.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s77" xml:space="preserve">Thus, hoping, on one hand, to give a new
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            Turn to the Practice of Perſpective, and
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            make it eaſier; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s78" xml:space="preserve">and being perſuaded, on the
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            other, that more learned Perſons than my ſelf
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            will not take this Trouble upon them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s79" xml:space="preserve">I ven-
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            ture to publiſh this ſmall Work, and expoſe
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            it to the Taſte of the Learned World; </s>
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            whom I expect no other Praiſe, but what
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            may reaſonably be claim’d by an aſſiduo{us} Ap-
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            plication.</s>
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