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 conciences againt any future impreions; that they may not, when they grow up, tartle at things which frighten illiterate men, who have not arm'd their minds with this ort of cholatick philoophy and academical knowledge.

Behold I was hapen in iniquity, and in in did my mother conceive me.

Dr. Delaune's Text upon Original Sin.

, January 25.

F to found and endow publick nureries of learning is (as it is generally eteemed) the mot noble and commendable of all benefactions; it will follow, that to embezzle or miapply moneys of etates bequeathed for that purpoe, is, of all frauds, the vilet and mot detetable: private acts of injustice, which extend no farther than a family, or a ingle peron, are very pardonable in comparion of thoe publick ones, which reach to ditant poterity, and frutrate the ueful progres of knowledge and philoophy.

A trademan may, by extortion, take two or three hillings in the pound, or even ''Cent. per Cent.'' more than his commodity is worth, of an old mier; or a whore may pick a young pendthrift's pocket,