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Rh Improvement, and all they learn is meer Cant and Jargon for three or four Years together. Now, my Lord, the Complaint is in some Measure true, but not easily remedied, and perhaps, after all the Exclamation, of so much Time lost in meer Words and Terms, the hopeful Youths whose Loss of Time is so much lamented, were capable of learning nothing but Words at those Years: I do not mind what some Quacks in the Art of Teaching say; they pretend to work Wonders, and to make young Gentlemen Masters of the Languages, before they can be Masters of Common Sense; but this to me, my Rh