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 universities must certainly be most frequented, who promise to give in two years the advantages, which others will not under twelve.

man who has studied a profession for three years, and practised it for nine more, will certainly know more of his business, than he who has only studied it for twelve.

universities of Edinburgh, &c. must certainly be most proper for the study of those professions, in which men chuse to turn their learning to profit as soon as possible.

universities of Oxford, &c. are improper for this, since they keep the student from the world, which, after a cer-