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 APPENDIX. "bdnntry, as not to re]ate to ltarin, the trifling "produ&of leud plays, newa-pa?ers, and pamphlets. "And, 0 grief ofgriefi ] the confciou�nef} o� their "own lo parts, foot �cholarfhip and other defe&$ "woul.d be fo far from fuggefiing to them the "propriety of'modefly and humility towards their ' governors, that, in proportion to their leaden "rance, and infuffYcien, their immdenre, and in. "filenee would abound. And this would be the "precious treafure, wherewith the univerfity would �be able to pr' efent the publick. " All this is fo agreeable to what I have obt3rved concerning the exereis, fludies, le&res, difputntbns, brayers, and convertion of that univerfity, (as any body may be convinced, who will gie himfelf the trouble to read my * papers on thole Cubits,) that you almolt �eem to haveflolen the whole paragraph from me.You o on in this ironical manner: "To be lure tkey are excellently well. prepared to "adorn any fiation with ability, fideht 7, and ho- "hOUr ! To be lure the neceflity of fubmiou to "the civil magifirate, and of obedience to the "laws of their country, is fo well impreg'd upon "they% that if there were no-penalties "their own re!te&ions would always keep them "in awe, and make them always fudious of the "peace, and abftinent of the property of the mean- "e'ft mere. her of the commubiry ! 'To be lure, "ter hav:ng read fi much philofipky, and made "the thoughts of their own mortality Jb fatal- "liar to them, nothing lefs can be expected "of them, than a contempt of the work, re- ',, a rio?neff );aation to the divine will, and fl of "lite, as if to-morrow was to be the init day of ' it!" I Vide Terr,-Filiuq N � Xx, xxxv, xlii. T P=ge o 4.

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