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 won't fhew you common good manners, u�e theta .never fo civiliy: ! proreit, I have a vail ref� for all the reverend tead and governors of colleges hais in both univerfities and I am refolv'd, it illall not be my fault, ifr there is any mi[uruterflanding be. I am glad, with all my hear, to hear that the new buildings at �hri.#-Church and 11-$ouls col- leges go on again, and that contributions come in apace, as mention'd by the do&ori but I would not have them fet their minds too much upon ne, qua. drangles, and empty libraries, and iacious halls, and coftly chapels, and painted windows, and marble 'lltar-pieces and large cellars, and fine gardens, and flable,, and co,,cl-houp,, and p, mmer-houp,, &c. fly, do&or, I would not have them fpend all their time in contriving and gaping at there things; but et apart, at leaR, one day in a quarter of a year, the lot ttudies of phiIofophy and religion. 1'11 affure you, I have heard rome bitter men, friends to the univerfity, obferve That, of late years, iences and arts hax e dedin'd in Oxrd, in propor- tion as their fineries have incread. Nay, I mytlq, when I fee a fellow mightily be- �patte'd with lace and embroidery, am very apt to fufpe his infide, and fly to myfelf, I warrant you, that fellow there has room enough in his nod- rile. But how, will you fay, can I compare the fa- mous uuivefity of Oxvon to a ridiculous Londo: Fop? I will conclude this paper, which i write in vi'.;- tlication of relyfell againt the afpefions or' my ene. mies, with telling you a merry fory,and a very When I had publifh'd my two firf papers, I unter'd about town, like o, her half-fleet au:hor from one coffee-houfe to another, and mingled my- fell in all the/r ca, to hear what wa hid of my .. lucubrations.

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