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Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics are indicated by _underscores_.
Small caps have been replaced with Title cased text.
Obsolete spellings of words (e.g., impolitick, antient, assylum, can'st,
etc.) have been retained; ct ligatures are represented as ct, and long s
as modern round s.
Typesetting error on page 30: comlpain changed to complain.
Typesetting error on page 39: POSTCRIPT changed to POSTSCRIPT.
On page 20, the last word of the three-sentence Latin passage was not
italicized in the original, so the last word was not marked as
italicized.
Catchwords have been deleted. (Catchwords were used on each page of very
old books to indicate the first word of the following page.)
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