. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . e fubjefts to be, vhiailimi perfona-rum ab eod-:m flipite dcfcendetttium; the connexion orrelation of perfons defcended from the fame flock orcommon anceftor. This confanguinity is either linealor collateral. Lhieal confanguinity is that which fubfifts betweenperfons of w hom one is defcended in a direft line fromthe oiher, as between John Stiles (the pmpofitus iathe table of confanguin
. Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . e fubjefts to be, vhiailimi perfona-rum ab eod-:m flipite dcfcendetttium; the connexion orrelation of perfons defcended from the fame flock orcommon anceftor. This confanguinity is either linealor collateral. Lhieal confanguinity is that which fubfifts betweenperfons of w hom one is defcended in a direft line fromthe oiher, as between John Stiles (the pmpofitus iathe table of confanguinity) and his father, grandfa-ther, great-grandfather, and fb upwards in the diiedlafcending line ; or between John Stiles and his fon,grand-fon, great grand-fon, and fo downwards in thedireft defcending line. Every generation, in this di-reY^ c/. c o N rfckoiiiii? the decrees in tlis diiccl line ; [ 3 anj ill crc fore 45 ] C ON iiniverfaUy ohrains, as wtU in liie civil and canon, asin die common Ttie doiflrine of lineal confangiiinity is fiifScicntlyplain and obvious; but it is, at the lirlt view, aflo-nifliin^r to confider the number of lineal ancellorswhich every man has, within no very great numberof decrees : and lb many different bloods is a manfaid to contain in his veins, as he hath lineal ance-ftors. Of thefe he hath two in ihe firil dcfcending de-gree ; his own : he hath four in the fecond ;the parents of his father, and the parents of his mo-ther: he hath eight in the third, the parents of histwo grandfathers, and of his two grandniotliers ; and,by the fame rule of progreflion, he hath 12S in the fe-venth ; 1024 in the tenth; and at the 20th degree, orthe diflance of 20 generations, every man hath abovea million of anceilors, as common arithmetic will dc-monftrate (a). This lineal confanguinity, we may
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