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Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
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Th1s rapid progrefs of knowledge, which, like the progrefs of a wave of the fea, of found, or of light from the fun, extends itfelf not' this way or that way only, but in all direélions, will, I doubt not, be the means, under God, of extirpating all error and prejudice, and of putting an end to all undue and ufurped author1ty in the bufinefs of re ligian, as well as of ftience and all the efforts of the interefted friends Of cor rupt efiablilhments of all kinds will be ineeeftual for their fupport in this en lightened though, by retarding their downfal, they may make the final ruin Of them more complete and glorious It was ill policy in Leo the Xth to patro nize polite literature. He was cherilh ing an enemy in difguife. And the Eng lith hierarchy (if there be any thing un found in its confiitution) has equal reafon to tremble even at an air-pump.
Th1s rapid progrefs of knowledge, which, like the progrefs of a wave of the fea, of found, or of light from the fun, extends itfelf not' this way or that way only, but in all direélions, will, I doubt not, be the means, under God, of extirpating all error and prejudice, and of putting an end to all undue and ufurped author1ty in the bufinefs of re ligian, as well as of ftience and all the efforts of the interefted friends Of cor rupt efiablilhments of all kinds will be ineeeftual for their fupport in this en lightened though, by retarding their downfal, they may make the final ruin Of them more complete and glorious It was ill policy in Leo the Xth to patro nize polite literature. He was cherilh ing an enemy in difguife. And the Eng lith hierarchy (if there be any thing un found in its confiitution) has equal reafon to tremble even at an air-pump.
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370 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2024
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