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 ceasing, your Judgment and Opinion may have done so too.

I was going to assure her, that I was still of the same Sentiments, when putting on a forbidding Look, with a serious Countenance the proceeded thus:

These Globes, Sir, came too late to accompany a Relation of mine to India, his Ship having sailed before they were finished, which is the Reason you see them here; and I have ordered them to be set out this Morning, and shall do so from Day to Day, tho' without obliging you to what Fontenelle had with the French Lady, an entire Week's Conference. But I have a great Mind to learn, from my Friend, something of the Nature and Use of them; for they appear to be made and finished up with that Curiosity and Care, that sure some very useful Knowledge is to be learnt from them, and is it not barbarous in you Men to confine it all to your selves?

, said I, you will give me a new Rise to value any thing that I understand; if I can render it acceptable to you.