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 4 Terra. Filings. left other communities; and that our uniCerfities, for inthnce, (the molt famous focieties of learning in the world ) are an undeniable proof of this ob- fervation. This has at fira fight,.a very plaufible apprance, nnd has, no doubt, in d x world of iorant fdites to the belie[ o it they mk t ought to be, s they are told it is. and knowing nothing to the contrary. they ieve t it is fo: thus are all hlfe- hs ebli'd. But though dgns are to be catch'd thus. to e& the hme 'ulity om or.rs, who have hv'd among them for any time, is fuch conrum- mate, bnefic'd--(l know not what to 11 it,) ch hden'd ontery, as no men in the world, but our all fchoolmen, could be guilty blu for them whila I relate it. The mo doquent an3 enownea Bdety o e and fier-omen, when they get hr enough out of town, among their filly count ac uain-  q._ rance and relations. may fay, with a bold dogmaucal r. that o{ all neovle the live the mo comforta-   and iovin I o [ther. nd that Billin ate is the  nebMurh in the world l that they have none  thole idle fqmbbles, and downi difputes te, which e fo equent among the dames and mms in coun=y villages; and they may add, that as'they all d alike in fi, it is their bUffhers d intereft to aree amongR themeIves, and not call wre andch. an3 hll to fcratching, and iearing, and pulling off' one another's caps, when they o. ught to be vending their commodities. This woula �ound very probable to folks who know no better: but to tell iuch thin,eO any one, who has N'en frequently there, and an eye and an ear wireels of their noify harangues, and bloody skir- mifl, es, is fuch a piece of impudence, as even an yfitr-omn would bhth to ix: guilty of.

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