A reply to Mr. Robin's remarks on the Essay upon distinct and indistinct vision published at the end of Dr. Smith's Complete system of optiks / by James Jurin.

  • Jurin, James, 1684-1750.
Date:
1739
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Credit: A reply to Mr. Robin's remarks on the Essay upon distinct and indistinct vision published at the end of Dr. Smith's Complete system of optiks / by James Jurin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He might have added, that Dr. Smith and 1 both pretend to the love of 'Truth, were both bred at Cambridge, were both fellows of the fame College, have been intimate Friends for many years, and are both of opinion that this Gentleman and his officiates underfl and juft as much of good manners, as they do of Sir Ifaac Newton’sfirft Lemma. But will all this amount to a fuffcient proof? Is it not pojfible that Mr. Robins, notwith- ftanding theje fufpicions, may have dijcharged his choler upon the wrong per Jons'? He is indeed fo good, as to fay, he is thus free, that he may do us the juftice to give us an opportu¬ nity of acquitting ourfelves, if we are falfe- ly accufed. But this, I think, is like the jujlice of hanging a man firfi, and trying him afterwards. If we Jhould now endeavour to acquit our¬ felves of this accufation, to remove this Gen¬ tlemans doubts and fufpicions; if Dr. Smith were to tell Mr. Robins, what he has often profejfed to other per Jons, that he had no hand in thofe papers; if to confirm this he were to remind him, that Philalethes himfelf has de¬ clared more than once, he wrote alone and unaffifted; if I-But what figni- fiespleading, when execution is over? Mr. Ro¬ bins has already vented his Refentment to the utmoji: with whatever grofs ill manners he has been treated, it cannot be denied that he has executed the Lex X alioms in its full ex¬ tent.