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1 1 |      and especially that of the year in the middle of which our
2 5 |         ten thousand guilders a year. ~When the worthy citizen,
3 5 |         In the beginning of the year 1672, Cornelius de Witt
4 6 | following syllogism in the same year: -- ~"To despise flowers
5 6 |       moment when, in the first year, its pale seed-leaf begins
6 6 |        dark brown. ~By the next year he had obtained flowers
7 8 |      but certain to win, in the year of grace 1673, the prize
8 14|      about the beginning of the year 1673 obtained some eggs