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 .q, PPEN'D IX. our atnderaital emdition i and as I apprehended that /uch an undertaking could not be carried on without interfering, in rome meafure, with what I had writ. ten, I put a Prop to the pr�8, till I had perufed your difcourfe. I .own that I was not a little difippointed in my expeations, and furpriz'd to find that, ttead of a general view of our du.eation at Oxford, as the nears-papers temed to pro/m., you had put k r ttf to the trouble of writing fo voluminous a upon the infuffdenty and elujn of one patti. cu'.arfiatute  whereas, when you _was upon that fub. jecrt, and maintaining the cau: of'academical fiine in fo learned-and firenuous a manner, you might certain have taken rome other fiaturn into confide- ntion, which are equally infujcient for the purpotg intended, or equally evadedin the execution; as well  rome other praSits in that univerfity, full as pcr- nicious in their effes, full as obnoxious to confute, and therefore not leli worthy ol youranimadverfion, and the explication of' thole to whom you appeal. I could wilh that you had done this both for m' tisfaion, (who am very defirous to fee this mat- ter fully cleared. up) and to tcureyour own charac- ter flora [the mprefentations of your lnemie and smkid lqeigkbour, fo grievoufly. eomphined. of, who will not fail to make uf of tNs opportumty to re- fleO upon you, .for confining your thoughts to Jingle.{tattte, which fo immediately and vifibly tend, to yourowninterand perfond 'views: for may they not infer, as I doubt not they are ready to do, that it is not fo much the publick goM of the r. lniverfi'ty in Reneral, as private advantage, wlich employsyour pe, and animates yot]'r zeal? that ifttartittall not Iolt rome of its Ftp. ils by a parti&hr accident, {which perhaps they will xefate in a different man- her, from what you have done) the world would not have been obliged with fo hborious a volume l=on the defetti, eefi of a !tatere, which amidit

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