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Show 24 eAn Idea of, &e. THE therefore believe,our attainments will be imperfe@, after we have dau! all s but becaufe we cannot attain toall,that therefore wefhould endeavourafter nothing 3 is an Inference, which Jooks fo much ay, PeCBOn the Practical Senfe of Men,that it ot not to be anfwered. Norwith better Reafon, may we go about dete ing, what may be done. The greateft Defigns that any Men undertake, are of the greate(t aticertain:ty, as tothe ccefs: which if they appear to be of good Import, though we know not howfarthey are attainable, we are to propound the Means,in the utmoft ufe whereof only, we can be hI eto pidves A War is not to be quitted, for the hazards which attend it 5 nor tlthe Councils of Princes broken up, becaufe thofe that fit at them, the Spirit of Prophecy, as well of Wifdom. To conclude, have not If but little fhould be effe&ted, yet to defign more, can do us no harm: For although a Man{hall never be able to hit Stars. by fhooting at them: yet he thall come much nearer to them, than another that thre Sedat Anse. Ipples. ANATOMY OF PLA NaS: BEGUN. WITH A General Account O F | geonzecr a ins ' Hl | | VEGETATION, Grounded thereupon. The FIRST BOOK. Prefented in Manufcript to the Roya Socier y, Sometime before the 11h, of May, 1671. And afterwards in Print, December 7. of the fame Year 1671. By NEHEM7 AH GREW MLD.Fellowofthe Royal Society, and of the College of Phyficians. The Second Edition, LONDON, Printed by W. Rawlins, 1682, |