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PG-P.729.025
29 May 1729:41 (23)
To Vindicate Religion against the Boasted Pretences of
Natural Knowledge,
In the Oratory,
At Newport-market, this evening will be a burlesque on a
course of experiments, necessary for all that do not
understand it; Nature a cook; Conversations are pumps and
levers. . . [3 lines] the mathematicks of hoops and
fashions; as well as toasts, sippets, &c. by hydraulicks;
why fiddling and dancing are not encourag'd by laws; . . .
[3 lines] Man prov'd a plumb-line, a pair of scales, an
organ, a weather-glass, an air-pump, a pulley, a wedge, and
a windmill; . . .
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