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 N O xxxv. Ter,t-$Ihts. met;, cape& at the fame time your hats, and your raoney too. It cannot be deny*d that there are, amongfl: the clergy, �ome as well bred, 'candid, and aecomplifh'd men; of as fine fenfe, as noble principles, and 1- ibera! Imowledge as amongR the laity, though notj ma- ny: but it rnuf[ alfo be confefli:d that they owe n'one of thefe advantages to their academical eru-. dieion, ftri&ly confidered, but either to a generous innate temper of mind, which clefpiles all reittaints in the purfuit of truth; or ell to convetfition with the polite, and the ttudy.of men, having firIt quit- ted thole muddy fountains of ill-nature and fat. l knovledge. DoCtor $wwe !fays, (if the pro/eg! for the vancement of religio be his) "That if no advan- ' tage of knowledge can be had from thorn places., "(meaning the univerfities) the time there/'pent "at be utterly loft, becau�e every orna.,r,ntal part "of education is etter taught niCewhere. I am glad to find that the fair ladie of 'ngland have, of late years, fo much altered their opinion of the gentlemen of the black robe, and of an uni- 'erfit� education. In days of yore, which were days of ignorance, barbarifin, and �uperttition, thing w$ thought fo engaging and agreeable amongIt them as an hand�orne young drki for which I coald give three or four reaibns i but one will be �tffficienr. The clergy enjoyed, at that time, all that forereign ?lmitude of power, which their mouths water enioy no,v; and therefore their would fuffer none to be ve drefi'd, or we//fed, or to talk commo Innf e, but themfelvesi a good dinner was called pam- pering the fiefl .; a good .fuit of doathes, or a clean faire, was pride, and taking too much care of that vile Tabernacle of cla?, the body i and all freedom of couverfatioa was here., and the wor. kgs of car.

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