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 4 Terr,c-Filius. f�&ion in it ad even that may upon occgion be difpenld with :, as by the following account of the method of their dittations at Oxford will ap. The rf$ of this argumentative drama are three, iz. the ottvent, the aej?ondent, and the Mod. r. The O?onent is the perfort who flways begins t attack. and is thre of lofing the day, being alwa) (as th ll it) on tM wron fide of the queflion o' off,times, that fide is lbly the tight tide, aycotdmg to o ern philofophy aM dffcove rle$. The Ref?onnt fus ov-againg the opponent, and is prer'd to deny whatev he arms, and alwa)s mes off with flying colours which muff needs make him enter the fls with great fortitude and epidity, T& MMermor i e hero, or-prindl charafter of t ama, and !s not muc unlike the godde lfi0ri$, as defcrib'd by the poets, hovering between two armies in an engagement, and with an arbi. tr'ary nod, deciding the fate of' the field. There is this riflerenee, indeed, between the military comba- tnt and our fhod combatants, that the latter know the iffue of thdr conflifl; before they begin which the formr do not. This Malerator firtits-about between the two ardycham?ons, during the time of aion, to te that they do not wander from the quefiion in ely bate; and when he perceives them deviating from it, to cut them fhort, and put them into the right road gain; tbr which putpole he is provided with a gl'eat quantit)' of rubble term and phrats of ar, fuch a, quoad &,  quoad iliad, form#brer c materialleer, rti�.men.ali.ter i tranj2endaliter, ?ualiter & lootetialiter, diretb 5' ?er fl, rtauc7i 3' per acu&m, entitati..b O' {uiddt.,;t.i�i .&c.. all which

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