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 N XLV. Terr,e. Filiss. they ufh off', and return, likemeteors, into thefam &lcurity from whence they afore. I have obrved a great many of the trfitor opling, who came to the univerfit7 with their thers ru, old country farmers) xn hnfey-,vofe ( y. coat,, greafy fun-burnt heads of hair, cloutcd floe, arn ockings, Sapping hats, with filv hat-band nd long muffin neckcloths run with red at the bottom. A month or two afterwards I have met them with ob-ig 'and ne 3oes, Oxrd-cut  a monfi or two more after this, they appeared in dr et cloaths and or ed florkings  then in t e- rigs and rtes and then m fi(k gom  till by degrees they were metamorphofid into cornpleat Staxs, and damn'd the old country putts, their fithers, with twenty foppi airs and eflicu]ations. g To or th?ee years afterwards, I have met  the time perfons in gowns and cacks, walking with demur: lk and an holy leer  lb mfy (as a learned divine Bid upon a,nite deent aafin) i the tranfition from dancing to ?reaching, and from the green to the pulpit  To conclude, Oxroa daily increas in fine cloaths and fine buildings  never were rick-layer6 trpenters taylor6 and erivig-makers tter in- cou3aed there  every day difcovers a new or a ew flone-all. find 'if you will ill ask whether gaod manners and karmhg increafe pro- portionably, I have a very good anfwer to give )'ou--on omni pumm orenet. /L In imitation of the learned Dr. Yiddes, thor of the apolcgy for the Duke of Bud:ing- k, amfljire's epitaph, in anf'.ver to a fre-thinker, Terro:.Filim thinks fit to declare, that he wrote the letter from Valentine Zr?ery himt!f, in order to introduce his thougtits upon this fub- je& the better. VOL. !l. F T E R 1.-

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