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Vita igitur in fanguine confiftit (uti etiam in facris noftris li-
gimus) quippe in ipfo vita, atque anima primo elucet, ulte-
moque deficit, ut cuilibet cernere eft, Sanguinem ultimo ca-
lorem (pulfus, vitæque authorem) in fe retinere: quo femel
prorfus extincto, ut jam non amplius fanguis eft fed cruor,
ita nulla poftliminio ad vitam revertendi fpes reliqua.
Patetque hoc idem luculentiùs quia nec in omnibus animali-
bus neque omni tempore cor pulfans reperitur, cum fanguis
tamen aut ejus Analogon in nullis unquam defideratur.

Vid. paffim in Exercitat. LI. de generat. Animal. Harv.

VOL. X.

LONDON:

Printed for JAMES HODGES, at the Looking-Glass,
facing St. Magnus's-Church, on London-Bridge.
MDCCXLIX.

9.8.

Gist
Tappan Presb. Arcor

3-22-33

THE

Human FRAME.

INTRODUCTION.

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HERE are two forts of human Learning to learn: That which others have already learned, which comes by Inftructions from Writings, Words, or Examples; and that which has not yet been learned, which is acquired by Obfervations, and Comparisons of Opinions, Actions or Things. This Age very unjustly prizes the one, and defpifes the other, admires old Knowledge, and ridicules new; which is the Reafon we have fo few beneficial Improvements. And it is obfervable, that Men who are Mafters of, and full of the one, feldom do any confiderable Thing in the other. Moft Scholars learn to tell us, learnedly, what we know or have in ufe; few learn to tell us any thing we know not. Men who learn to mind Words, feldom mind VOL. X. Things;

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