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 o APPENDIX. an heap of fleming prejredices, and rnanifl bhtnders, as muft proceed, either fg;om a fttong inclination to erverting the trsth, o.r-ffrrom the groffeft tgnoran'ce of the fubecet n hand! You mu, therefore, now fuffer me to this matter a litde with you (as you have vo2th Mr. wk$ * ) and to ask you, how you couid do fo uL.h:d and unchriflian a thing, to brood over relentmerits (fo wrongly conceived) for three years together. and fit down, in fo deliberate a manner, in order to fend them forth into the world, as they now appear, with all that fle of argument, ?ornp o! words, with whichyou hope to obtain dit amongt the vulgar and ignorant? How cou!d it enter into' the heart of fo ?iota and conjientiom a man, to ,,.,,rite fo elaborate a performance, without any jutt reafon. gainlt a Gentleman,who had l�ca an Ornament to your H.ll, and for whom you formerly exprefld �o eat an efttern ? And tli., withcut fo much as giving him an opportunity, m a trivate manner, to juffify. his conduc"t, or !.rdon, and make you reparation. Could nothi,g htify the violen�fiand it:npetuofity of )'our but ex tn his name in timoff every a e of a . po g pg '/urge book, with you? own hard comments and un'ufi ob/rvations? if you fly that yos did ap?ly to the Provot Oriel College, before you begun to write your book  yet was that fufficient for a jufi and good man to do? why was not Mr. Bowles, who makesfo cou- �picuous a figure in it, ap. plkd to, as well' as the Pro. vq,//t was he, all on a ltdden, grown fo inconfi, ler,- le in your eyes, as not to dellrye the teal notice or regard, even wac, en hJs Reputation was to be put at flake? why ought not He tikcwit; to have heard

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