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 Terr.Filis. 4't by an untimely end, being overtaken in the full ca- reer of his iniquities, by the uf vengeance oF 3.1- migh*y God. The other is ttill living, and will not ( I hope ) ever have it in his power to carry �o high an hand over us5 bur he has been aiming ar it, and in the ttation which he is now in, is ac2ing as much ty- ranny, and more moral diflonetty than his prede. ceffor ever did; for which, of cour�e, he is accoun- ted madam /;" / s be! boy, and ycleped the father of th.at. Jbdety, which for tenty years he has been tinning. The firft thing that we hear meritorious of him is, that he quickly fpent a good eftate left him by his natural parents, and then went to pillag!ng his college as fall as he could5 upon which, his mo- ther, who adopted him, thought him a proper per- fort to manage her affairs, and put into his hands all her papers, books, and ready cafh, relying folely up- on his prudent and juft adminiftration  every groat the had' in the world came into fither Wilb'am' hand, and loon went out of them again; for there is a certain imbecility in his fingers, which will not fuffer him to keep any money between them as he once told an High-German 21rtifl, who gave him'h piece off money, and bid him keep it in his han'd if he could: Prithee, friend, fiid he, don't trouble me with thy money  all the world knows 1' could never keep a 7 money in my hands in my life t3ut gie it my brother Hle yonder, and I'll gage be keep it fail enough. . . His doting mother, inftead of' reinting ths un- thriftinel; and inditecOt management, loves him the better for it, and hugs him the clofer to her bofom; lffuck, good may it do him, flys the poor old wretch i I rejoice tba't I have/ ,orthy a child to fpend vbat I hve g.ot i'I take it ver kindly 0fBiily, that he

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