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 APPENDIX. However, Sir, you might defign this, it is fo fe.able an obfervation, that I cannot help drawing one inkrenee from ib .v&. that it is not �ufficient for a good Governor to thy in vindication of every thing he does, that he has the authority of thefiatutes on his fide  but he ought likewith to execute them equ.lly and .,npartidl/, both in the d,f?enfition of avour$, and the infli&ing of?uiments for we $5_, know, that ff allthe flucutes were to be put rigoroufl), in. execution, above half the member m' every cety mutt be expelled 5 but, as a good Governor is lap- pored to a& like a good King, and impartially execute jufiice with merq, it is altooft as unjufi and unequita- 'hie to-fur?end the rigour of the tta. turestowardsme, and exert it againll othsrs, as t would be to either without, or agaie# any fuch authority. I wifh you could prevail upon the I'refid:nt andFel- loro of a certain college (�ome of whom are your intimate friends) to lay this confideration ferioufly to heart! In another phce, fpeaking of univer]Tty degrees, how exa&iv do you and I jump in opinion, concern- ing thole h[nour ? "" Surely, ];,y yu, there ', is rome error in this conceit; and becau. alegreen a' rents ./3r education." You are Lill more f,:vere upon your lrethren the Clergy, and feem to condemn their darling pri- vilege of pluralities in this artful and very acute manner:- .-, "Where is the neceflity that He, ,' who will never delCr=e ere Livi*lg, flould have "to; which rome l,ave doubted whether the molt "exalted merit could innocently cn.}oy ? is not on "Living feficient to [:egle? orl.�artfh enough to "expel!i: himfell to ? Or rnuft he needs have Vo,. !l. 1 "to
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