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 -44 APPENDIX. go. doing, when the itatute is en[oreed with a firea- get penalty, and more efleeSual fine2ion, give me leave to call this only a gr"nis dic2um i it will be in vain to tall us, that a good Governor will not re- f_( his difie/t to any fcholar who has behareel well, and n advance hinitilf by rem?ving dire&ff begging the queflion, and imp!ymg, not on- ly that all the prqnt Gevemors of colleges and halls are god men, and imparting Governorsi (whereas, perhaps, there may be one or two inl!ances to the contrary, as I {hall prove from you own words,) but it fuppofes farther, that there never was, and never will be any fuch thing as a bd Governor, as long as the nniver#ty thnds. Perhaps you-witl reply, that fu?pofing any Go. emor {hould be fo unreafonable, or icked, a to refuge a fcholar his deffit, w;ho has even the juteft caufe to &fire it, yet he has Ierry to a?- peal to the Vice-chancellor, who can himfell give him leave, oithout the congent of his Governor: but this alfo comes to much the time; for how can I be fure that he vill give me leave, which de. pends entirely on what fort of a ma the Vice- chancellor fhall happen to be i whether a jutt honeft impartial man, who weighs things with an equal batlancei or one., who will pieter the irrieniflip and good corrq?ondence of a brother Head, wiih whom he hath been long intimate, to the tingle requea of a poor unknowny0ung Lad, againf whom, l:erha�, the Gv'ernor has hnjufty ?re?off, efl'ed him.. This, Sir, is fo far from being a chimerical prehenfn, that in all robability, it would often be the cai efpedally -,hen party runs high, and the merit of men is not decided by learnlag and induf- try, but by a certain zeal for this or that prevailing opinion. Inorder to give this argument {ome eight, I mull &rue you to c youx thoughts back to the

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