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 Terr-Fitim', v, render them odious or ridiculous to the'common a; which a ertain et o entlemen whom love ancl honour, have a deve knack at doing: the]/ can frly explain liberty into licentioufnefi, mercy into fear, juttice into cruelty, wiflom into chance, and chance into wifdom. In the fame manner �ormtion bei_ n hrmlefs, unexceptionable word )-F:elt; they ve chmg_ed it in.to.i.noth?, which crries a very bad found ong wth it, l N Nov By this rehgious fright of hand, they haw per. (ua&d many ignorant ixle out of their fenres, made them believe that to reform is to .aemotifi,  that to redrexq grievances is to commit 'tevances; aucl that to punifh offen&xs is to o?pms the inn0. cema'he eentlemen of the univerfities have �ucceede3 wonderully, by the help oF th lege,..rn.ain, _uon the weakneff and ignot. ance ot mankma. 'l'ney have perfuadcd the mulumde, that a or mentary zi[�tation of' the univerlitie w prove the �- - �' ' ii cermn and total exttqrauon of learning and rd g- on. - And oh! that it were the multit#de that they have thus perfuaded ! To fuppo. rt this delufio. n, .ey keep their ,:,,, aecl oevances to themielves .as much as they an""i �r -g corruptions and grievances, of which themfdves are the authors, they axe fo rnod not to &fire any redre or remedy: they think an ill bird which befouh his own nejt, _and there.fore tenderl hufh u their ownfcandalous ra6hces, the y P P. andYbrand all complaints and informations a.gnft them, with the infamous name of difobedienc�, undutifulnefi, and ingratitude,, . to their alma This trick, as fhallow as it is, has kept man)i I!oneft gentlemen From difco.veting wtrat they cout ot heF coMemr/me in 'their hearts: they will not r - them.

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