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 founded upon this politick uppoition, that when they had got a new Printing-houe, they could never want new books; but by what means oever it was built, my lord has the honour, and we, his happy poterity, the invaluable benefit of it.

I hould think it an undertaking well worthy the laborious Mr. Hearne, to give the world an account, from year to year, of the many incomparable tomes, which iue from that illutrious pres. This, I apprehend, would do great honour to the unverity, and to its learned authors, ince the catalogue would not be crouded with any of thoe heretical, pernicious, and free-thinking tracts, which are the noiom pawn of other modern prees: we hould find there no ill-meaning Eays upon human Undertanding, no Oceana's, no Hypothees of Liberty, no decants upon Original Contracts, nor enquiries into the State of Nature, no Appeals to the Laity and common Sene in matters of religion, no vindications of Concience and private Judgment, no defences of Reitance in any poible caes, no apologies for the Revolution, and the preent Government, &c. to ully the Academical Types, and reproach the olemn Imprimatur of the unverity——New, accurate Editions of primitive Fathers, and antient Chronicles, or modern ermons, and long ytems of Logick, Metaphyicks, and School-divinity are the olid productions of this augut Typographeum——Such are the effects, and uch the advantages of retraining the licence of the pres! How would letters flourih? how would arts revive? how would religion lift up her awful front? and how would the church rejoyce, if uch a wholeome check were put upon the pres throughout the world?

But is not the only, nor the principal ue, for which thee tupendous tone-walls were