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 48 Terra-Fili: nile) ' one that is none to the fi4te,) then I aft'ufo you no care is wanting, no labour is finred to com- plete him in their darling principles. If' he will but laugh at oaths to his King, and think tho�e facrecl to the univerfity, all is like to go well with him all little faults are cnniv'd ati only, if he gets drunk, he mull be lure to talk treafon, and damn the Whigs: if'he tin'es a w.-.re, as long as he does but love the church as well, he may enjoy both i de. grees, na holy orders are ne,er deny'd for fuch peccadilloes; and from llep to/tep he goes through the tivour of all his mother's heft children to a c0-1. lege iiving. There is a cullom attributed to the colleges of jefuits abroad by many writers, that they have al- ways fome referv'd tenets to the fociet,y, which they trul} but to few hands l many filvo s {br trifling fins, and many tcret method of turning great crimes into little ones i and it is a known maxim, That no novice is to be entitled to any Ihare in the ttewardflfip of thelb m�1teries, till he is capable of adding one to the number' then, m /bn, carl in th lot among us, let us all have one Imrfi, we fhall tr:ciou, fitbrian,e, ve fiJatl fill our H o v s i! s vith There is another locicry in his majetty's good town of' Lom; one tonathan 14"--d. is head of the hour, who approve and apply this praice to tittle. I wifh, fbr the fake ot the honeit among my countrymen, there were no more. I have flet'.:n, I think, a pretty plaufible tea/on for the care that thet tender mothers take of their babes, and fairly acquitted them of any de- ignormcci t, bat, I think/peaks itfilf, tl wealthy

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