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… without the fire. ‘Tis certain, if only the moist, or only the fiery element, should domineer, all would be laid wast, and nothing fructifie, &c. The Water would stagnate and freeze without some kindly resolving heat, and afford no warm and friendly vapours, and fruitful exhalations. And the fire cannot live, without a moist and humid nutriment, or last any…
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