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The Preface.

[...] the best English I can. Since Sir Thomas Brown wrote in very elegant Latin original: "elegant Latin", I must leave his thoughts and ideas original: "notions" to the reader’s judgment original: "censure"; meaning critical evaluation or opinion.. I consider myself responsible for nothing except the faithfulness of the translation and the correctness original: "congruity" of the English; and regarding that, I can only say that I have written as faithfully and as well as I can.

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