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—But Scroderus went on, maintaining his thesis.—
My father was just balancing within himself, which of the two sides he should take in this affair; when Ambrose Paræus decided it in a moment, and by overthrowing the systems, both of Prignitz and Scroderus, drove my father out of both sides of the controversy at once.
Be witness ———
I don't acquaint the learned reader,—in saying it, I mention it only to shew the learned, I know the fact myself.—
That this Ambrose Paræus was chief surgeon and nose-mender to Francis the ninth of France, and in high credit with him and the two preceding, or succeed-ing