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 4 6 TERR-FILIU$. N �IX. /-/ Tibi erupt .,firees.--.-- Mong all the various arts and fciences which are taught at our univerSPies, the antient art of ?u,m ha5 been always reckoned fo confidetable, that the two learned riflers ha,e had almol as xvarm contells concerning their fuperiority in this branch of learning, as concerning their antiquity and ecedence. I wonder the author of the art of PuNlqlg(does not mention the uni'erfitie with more particular re�peO: upon this occaflon  fince they have always Been its fond hurling mothers, and brought it into that flouri%ing flare, in which, amidtt the decay of other forts of lrning, it at prefent continues. It is a 'fufficient proof how much this 1tupendous art was formerly tkidied at the univerfiries, that all fermons, before the Reftoration, are embe}ifled in every page with great numbers of the moll exqui- fire Puss i and a man, who was not blefs'd witla �this happy talent, could not make a popular preacher, xor .get any preferment i for cur wife forefathers

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