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 APPENDIX. and becoming my o'-adjutor at a time, when thought that every body had deferred me in the cauf of virtue and Rformatin..I have long boured by my /'elf under the weight of calumny upon this account i and it is very kind of you 1tep in, e,en thus late, to my relief, and tak half of the burthen upon ),our �elf. The only re- turn that I can ?romife to make is, that as you lm, ed. efpi/d the comforts of eafe, plenty, and tranqmlity to fupport me i fo I will, upon all oco carlons, (as far as truth and reaj3n will allow me} fxcrifice my time, and even my reputation to tirve you: at prefent I can do no more than affix the ,gum of what you have written, with there Re- marks upon it, to the end of my book on the fame fubjecq:, that they may live together to all polterity, and be mutual aid, and juttifieations of each other. ' I con}eft, Sir, I am at: a 1o�s to j. udge whethe the univerfity, affembled in tonvocation, will think fir to return you their thanks, in due form, or the pro?Ol you have made to them or, order your book to be burnt, as a libel upon their tute$ and dicitline but I [hall impatiently wait for the iffue of their contultations, having the jufle. teafort in the world to expect, that m perfor- 'Y.. mance will meet with the fame fate, whcthe be for its honour, or for its difhonur. Our cafes, Sir, are to exa&ly parallel, that I have borrowed a pall'age out of your book, entitled, gn(verfity Education, for a motto to Trr-Filim: again, part of your otto �ervcs full a p?ofite- ly for an head-Feice to this ,'lpiendixi and I mutt take the liberty to tondudt in the tame manner that you eonddel which I chufe to do becaut the words are exae"tly applicable to my care. well as yours, and are far more fg#rati and me. t?horieal than I can fupply. I ' * "For

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