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Show vevbiogaaiirio e - OO0OO0LOO 0T (S P A (NG oW - = S TS SRSy 7Xl =l S 7Y S S "' x , Y e L D Xere X e Special REMARK taken at large out o " ATHANASIU KIRCHE HI Antiquitieofs China P RS CHAP The Caufe and Occafion of this Work clean.sh data import.tsv out README T 1s now about 30 Years fince that I produce th Expofition of a certain Syro-Chinefian Monumen found in China 1625 5 which although it gained n {fmall applaufe amongft Readers of a more then ordinar apprehenfion that were taken with the No velty, yet notwichftanding afterwards there wer not wanting fome incompetent Cenfurers 6t Cri-The opinio ticks, who ceafed not to wound its reputation byfiifi?t?;ff inarling and trifling objeGions, ftabbing 1t withfg;gi;'ggggCritical Steelettoes, albeit they proved in the fe- Monumesr quel leaden and blunted; wi%. That there wa never any Monumen of fuch _kind in Nature, and therefore that it was a meer forgery. This they endeavouted by all means poffible not only to perfwade themfelves to {ucha belief,but al{ to raile a like credulity in others. Thefe and the like petfons are defervedly, an ought to be efteemed for fuch; who rejelting all divine and humane faich, approv |