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PREFACE . 
T may be necejjary to obfervey by way of Preface to the lowing EiTays , that the three frfi were printed before , der the Title of Digreffions , in the Expla ? iatio ? is of San & orius í Aphorifms> but that the four latter were never yet made public ; and the chief Reafon why they are fo now , is in Compliance to fome Expectations , which I find have been raifed by Hi ? its given , in my Pifpenfatory , on thofi Subje & s . 
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