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 mutt nor be too wife; t'harpers wouki n' t aming-bles, i[ e men o[ fortune knew bite. Whaterer ! have here laid down, I rubmir to t/m �enfure of the tvereft judges. The unbiaf'd will, that I hope, bellcore and agree tbe grievouseaor.- rnities fland in need of refo.rmation: the fuffe.5. ers by attors and abettors of them, as they julfly dread, will, by that means, to fly no more of' them, be fhewn as they are. Thaik God,. we have feen.a little the lhte of a profperous illa,n fallen from height, and reapi the reward due to his crimes. 1 would not b e thought to have alledged any' thing in prejudice to thol gentlemen who may' pretend to be feverdy 'cenfuret in what I have 'rhe matters of fa& are true, and, God help us, ndt few in number. i make no a!lufions to particular men: let the firicken deer go weep; let the Fee i:noceat take warning. I fpeak to the world, and hope for the regard of all t.hofe whot interell it is to take care of the education of youth, whom I. with to te in times-to come brought up in founder and honeRer principles than has been of !ate the pro&ice. What can the prefent a, or the next, from us, and ours, upon whom the misfortune of our ca: is fo very hard, that either we mul our youth at home, by our chimney-corners, put them into poffeffion of' our etes, inll'ru&ed no better than gr,ooms, without one qualifies- our tion, From the knowledge of mankind, to make figure in the world won y their birth and fortuae or by knding them to the pretended feminaries of virtue and learning, prottimte them to the bale .figns of thole whol buffneff we fee it has been. and s, to enfnare th. em into all the traps that giddy boys an be caught lai and make them, at any rate,. the D' to&
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