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92 probable that the Earth has true attractive Power.

This Fore-runner in Philoophy was alo an elegant Writer, an Hitorian and a Wit.

moral Eays are greatly eteem'd, but they were drawn up in the View of intructing rather than of pleaing: And as they are not a Satyr upon Mankind, like Rochefoucaults Maxims, nor written upon a ceptical Plan, like Montagnes Eays, they are not o much read as thoe two ingenious Authors.

Hitory of Henry the Seventh was look'd upon as a Mater-Piece, but how is it poible that ome Perons can preume to compare o little a Work with the Hitory of our illutrious Thuanus? about the famous Impotor Perkin, Son to a converted Jew, who aum'd boldly the Name and Title of Richard the Fourth, King of England, at the Intigation of the Duches of Burgundy; and who diputed the Crown