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 % Terr-Fitius. x. as ptenfifulIy fraught with ran venomous nea/bn, as they are with dulefi and mpotence. To publifh them, would be to throw fi. Ith and ordure in the face of the government. What Tom ttron fiid to another Tom, who had ten times more wit and fen than our MaudI'm Tom, comes into my head whenever I think of l'att ! vrite ndari&$ and  damn'dr Write eiigrams for cutlers, &c. N:y. even that Grulfireet � province is above his rech; I know nothing that he is fit for, but Bil- li,,;ate fermons, d infptions for Mg-houfe was. l,de,as things ve n manag of late years, it does not gnify a firthing who our prors and leSurers arei Oavus will  as we as OEdipus to  do nothing, but recdve a certain ram of mo. hey evy 7r for his neglince and rjury: a mefine-c,re does not ruire any tordi a- Niii?. Nay if it  refov by the O-d con- votzon, as t feems to , that the youth under their cae all be kt very ignorant, in order to make them very d'aut, I think they have made an admirable choice for that putpole. The of colleges, d'ye e, ing, moR of them, long- headed men, wgue Iogi!iy upon this poSnt; thu5, A men that unrqds his btnefi, can (if he pIfes) in& others in it; and who knows but tt out off pvfe, or rome whim or other, & may be tempted to do his duff e ergo,.it is not fi to t, him. But a man, who knows nothing of the matter mlL not (if he would) tch others, accor- drig to the old maxim, ex nihilo niht fit  he can o no miff ; ergo, he all be our ma.

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