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Excerpt from The Sacred Theory of the Earth, Vol. 2: Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth, and of All the General Changes Which It Hath Already Undergone, or Is to Undergo, Till the Consummation of All Things
As to the Style, I always endeavour to ex ptefs myfelf in a plain and perfpicuous man ner; that the Reader may not lore Time, not wait too long, to know my Meaning. To give an Attendant quick Difpatch, is a Civility, Whether you do his Bufinefs or no. I would nor willingly give any one the Trouble of reading a Period twice over, to know the Senfe of it left, when he comes to know it, he ?lould not think ir' a Recompence for his Pains. Whereas, on the contrary, if you are eafy to your Reader, he will certainly make you an Allow-x a'nce for it, in his Cenfutc.
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