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 176 APPENDIX. you have by far out-done me: for I will defy the worft of my enemies to .x,,r one inttance where I have, in fo bitter a manner, inveigh'd againfi any Gentleman, for no other reafon than pure- ly to wreak a litde t'?leen, and be/patter the I do not fay that you dej,r'gned to tkrve me in this fighal manner; for, as lobrevved at the begin- ning of there remarks, the ifit'ciency and elufion of one particular ttatute, in which you fancy your tilf aggrieved, tiem to be the burthen of your whole iook, from beginning to end. ^11 your comphints turn upon this head; but, in the great hurry of your zeal, there is �carcely an enormity in the univerfity which you have not ]ugg'd in as a cont'equence of this infuffi'cienq or cluff'on, though they evidently flow from other caufis. Thus we may juftly fay of your book, without prejudice or partiality, that you/&m to be edly m the wrong, in your main pofition, as well as in the fa&s which you have brought to fupport it, and inadvertently in the right in almolt every Perhap,, after all, you will objec�at I have mirinterpreted 7our thoughts, and deduced conl'e. qwuences which never cntred into your heart5 to hich putpole you will quote a great many plm- fib!c purges out of your I:ook. It ma 7 be lb,, in- deed  but, even in that care, I can fee no reafon that I have to ask your p,'u'don, fince, however ! may ,have injured your thoughts, I am lure that i have not wrefted your veorls, which are evidently on my faie, whatever your heart may be; nor are you the firit who has really wrote a satire, whil he was intending a Panegyric& But however this :,.-as brought to pati, whether rittingly or urmittingly, i am certainly obliged to }:ou for ting up the cudgels in my defence,

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