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 Terve4'lius. xvx. or: this as their governing principle. I was lately ask'd by a near Telation of mine, who has been a tenant there rome time, if', in my confcience, I thouoht he and his brotherhood ought not to trufted vth thesr liberty, as well as the tribi of tulrats, fia3fcribr, &c. I own, I was going to grant him his point, when he run on fo oddly, .again the condu of the adminillration, in rome a,,e particulars, that prov'd to me the Poor man muff geeds be very mad 3 I flook my head in to. ken of rnjt compaflion and fuperior reafon, and left faire, It mull not be forgot, that there are rome a very few) who are under the direr:ion of an odd ?rindpte enough; they call it their con/iience: I be- lieve the term is uniitelligible antl obfolete, excc N to a few of my dffci?les within the liberties, with whom I all at Fretint leave iti only adding, that this inci?',e (however aukwarcl and hnta_ftic they rr, ay th?k :} would have a very good elFeft: m a dignify d clergyman, or the Head of a college. And I mull do a certain :enth the jullice to fly,, that I lino,;, above or.e or two of that reverencl body, who ure raves to this princi?leat this very day. I fi eak what I think the trtah,and I don t care whethera.n? body believes me or not. But from my wn little obfcrvation I have been ?t to think, that mankind is molt generally under the power of another principle, which is of infinite variety, and partakes frequently of rome one or other f the forego' ing principles, and yet is in many re- fleOs tlifferent frown an]of them: 'tis what ! fhall at prefent ditiinguifh by the name of Fltrot,, or that irarticular bent of mind that obftinate turn of fondntis and inclination, ,hich altooil every one �eel rome time or other, for �ome favourite trifle, rome good that ..lls chiefly in the fancy, and is of- ten inconftttent esther with intereft, re?utation, ea- iotl,

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