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<blockquote> <font size="4">Do here most humbly lay this small Present at Your
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Majesties Royal feet. And though it comes accompany'd with two disadvantages,
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the meanness of the Author, and of the Subject; yet in both I am incouraged
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by the greatness of your Mercy and your Knowledge. </font>
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<p><font size="4">By the one I am taught , that you can forgive the most presumptuous
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Offendors: And by the other, that you will not esteem the least work of Nature,
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or Art, unworthy your Observation. </font></p>
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<p><font size="4">Amidst the many felicities that have accompani'd your Majesties
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happy Restauration and Government, it is none of the least considerable, that
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Philosophy and Experimental Learning have prosper'd under your Royal Patronage.</font></p>
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<p><font size="4">And as the calm prosperity of your Reign has given us the
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leisure to follow these Studies of quiet and retirement, so it is just, that
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the Fruits of them should, by way of acknowledgement, be return'd to your
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Majesty. There are, Sir, several other of your Subjects, of your Royal Society,
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now busie about Nobler matters: The Improvement of Manufactures and Agriculture,
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the Increase of Commerce, the Advantage of Navigation: In all which they are
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assisted by your Majesties Incouragement and Example. </font></p>
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<p><font size="4">Amidst all those greater Designs, I here presume to bring
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in that which is more proportionable to the smalness of my Abilities, and
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to offer some of the least of all visible things, to that Mighty King, that
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has establisht an Empire over the best of all Invisible things of this World,
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the Minds o f Men.</font></p>
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<p align="right"><i><font size="5">Your Majesties most humble</font></i></p>
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<p align="right"><font size="5"><i> and most obedient</i></font></p>
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<p align="right"><font size="5"><i> Subject and Servant,</i></font></p>
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<p align="right"><b><font size="5">ROBERT HOOKE .</font></b></p>
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<p align="right"><a href="title.html"><img src="images/htmldemo/back.jpg" width="146" height="40" align="left" border="0"></a><a href="preface.html"><img src="images/htmldemo/forward.jpg" width="196" height="40" align="right" border="0"></a></p>
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