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 x.. Terra-Filius; How faithfully they obtrve this trult Which repofed ir them by their fuperiors,'and how, rious they are not to /ha.trey the leaft glimp? d ernicious li ht am0n tt the rattle-&iid, p g, ,g. young fellows o the unn, erhty,' thq foIJotving:. letter, which. occafion"d tfiis paper, will difcover. Wadham-college, Jan, SIR, To the Authorof "I Hope you intend to acquaint the world, . " monglt other abufes, in what manner the " pious deligns of thol good men, who left us "nit our p.ub!ick ,ures, ave anfwered. Y er- ,' day- morning at nine a clock, the bell went ,' utally for ]-ec'ture Whether for a rhetorical r "logical one, I cannot tell i but I went to the' "fchools, bi with hopes of being in, rtru&ed in "one or the ,they, and having faunter d a pretty "while along the quadrangle, impatient of the lee.- "turer's dehy,! ask'd the maor (who is an offi- "cer belonging to the fcho6Is) whether it wa "ufual now and then to flip a le&ure or fo: his "anfwer was that he had not fn the ice of' any "lec2urer in any faculty, except in poetry and mu- "&, for three years patti that all le&ures betides "were entirely negle&ed: both of great conf'e- "quenee! efpecially the fir, as it is performed "by fo ingenious and accomplifi'd a proficient! "Every thurlay morning in term time there "ought  be a 3livi'nity le&ure in.the divinity fchool. ' two gentleram of'our houfe.. went oM day?, D 4 ' ' "liear

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