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 26 Terre.FIus. N �xv. retra_ation, ' even that common one of having their ardon ask d. If this was not a futilelent fpecimen of thelrbru- tality to STRac�RS, I could produce, out of their own hittorians, various inttances of an implacable Oirit always prevailing amongtt them againll aliens f all/brts, even .ews, /'up/fit, and the belt of churchmen: but I forbear to do it, being/nfiblethat many people will fly they ought to be commended, initend ofridicul'd, fer what I/hould alledge and pro. v againll them; it being the great and diftingui/hmg charaSerittick of a true-born Church-of-England-man,. to love none but his own rsuntry, and his own re Neither do I find that thet trencher.caps are more olite to their own dear country. men, than they are to ]breigers, or make a whir the better figure in the englifl beaumonde than in the memoirs of travelkrs  they fuck in four dogmatical principles as loon as they come to college, and being, for the firf years obli. ged to rubmir to the flarched 1sedantry and caprice of Jperiors, they expe& the time formalities, and thetime adu!ation, when they come to be of the famefiandig, which they piid themrelies; in fhort, pride, letulsn. 9', and ill-breeding, are the fir8 and !aft leftohs which they learn at the univerfities. To what elfe can it be imputed, that �o many of ur country e#rates and vicsrs are jult fuch ill-man. ner'd downs as thole they preach to, unfit for the converfifion of the town, the court, or ofany civi- liz'd affembly ? They know nothing of the world, and it would be very well if the world knew no- thing of them; they have mean, groveling, vulgar fauls. and yet we may oblrve in tteeraaeVr:yveP)eta: tiful leven'of pride and ambition; tisfied with the refpe& which is paid them, any more than they are with their tithes and wage,. Lln- onfcionable wretches !who, unlik all other trdef-

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