the English Nation.
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A Frenchman who arrives in London, will find Philoſophy, like every Thing elſe, very much chang'd there. He had left the World a plenum, and he now finds it a vacuum. At Paris the Univerſe is ſeen, compos'd of Vortices of ſubtile Matter; but nothing like it is ſeen in London. In France, 'tis the Preſſure of the Moon that cauſes the Tides; but in England 'tis the Sea that
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