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a Perecution from all Sides, mut necearily uppoe a mot exalted Merit as well as a very ditinguih'd Reputation, and indeed he poes'd both. Reaon at that Time darted a Ray upon the World thro' the Gloom of the Schools, and the Prejudices of popular Supertition. At lat his Name pread o univerally, that the French were deirous of bringing him back into his native Country by Rewards, and accordingly offer'd him an annual Penion of a thouand Crowns. Upon thee Hopes Des Cartes return'd to France; paid the Fees of his Patent, which was old at that Time, but no Penion was ettled upon him. Thus diappointed, he return'd to his Solitude in North-Holland, where he again purued the Study of Philoophy, whilt the great Galileo, at fourcore Years of Age, was groaning in the Prions of the Inquiition, only for having demontrated the Earth's Motion.

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