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 '-xz Terre. Filitt'. . o 7 and of fo ill con�equence are both'thetextrearns a yng man', who ould  minding his ime ment, that the one mak him mue too vohtfie to apply himfe}g the other too upid and fplenatie to take any delight'in his bufine or Rudies. I knew a promifing Lad, who came to the verfity, after having n approv'd thro' one oFour her fch0ols, as a dilint and ingious feholar: he was the very favourite of his maker, and I have heard h}m bnd)y commend his fir eps in th world of learning: I knew him for rome time, after e came among us, maintain the time chamber; chamber, and himff whH he kept his . employ'd Was in it: the m sfor tune that ttended him was, ind=d, that the poor young fellow did not drefi fmcs} nay, often was really dirty: by degreeshe got acamtedin the univerfity with rome oftho who call them- felves the beaux efprits of the p}ace; of the he foug.t the _onverfiuon, fir or, t of'curiofity and pes of improvement, 'till innfibly he forgot that motive which had brought him among them. He w, though he cou)d not agree they had a va deal of learning, that they had yet d lindn. . . y g  not abundance of wt, indeed, but very rich lace,, red:' ocigs, fil-button'd coats, and other things, which nRitute a man of tae in Oxford. All thi;_ I fay, be fiwi and as they are moR of t]em good-- natur'd ellos, was not onded at their dre-, eaufe he lik'd the men. And tho' it was a while bebre he egan to copy after them, yet thing is more cer{ain, than that'imitation follows' approbation. They were continua{3v crvine the  little more line. To this the or youth had little to fly; he percei'd the pro&ice was telg aDin him, but did not well know ho to coe up to it. He as a }ad ,f good n, and onfed this air,orion of himlfWould me him' F 6 be

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