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30 their fortune, their tation, their learning, or their experience, have appeared the mot zealous to promote the ucces of Mr Viner’s etablihment.

advantages that might reult to the cience of the law itelf, when a little more attended to in thee eats of knowlege, perhaps would be very coniderable. The leiure and abilities of the learned in thee retirements might either ugget expedients, or execute thoe dictated by wier heads, for improving it’s method, retrenching it’s uperfluities, and reconciling the little contrarieties, which the practice of many centuries will necearily create in any human ytem: a tak, which thoe who are deeply employed in buines, and the more active cenes of the profeion, can hardly condecend to engage in. And as to the interet, or (which is the ame) the reputation of the univerities themelves, I may venture to pronounce, that if ever this tudy hould arrive to any tolerable perfection either here or at Cambridge, the nobility and gentry of this kingdom would not horten their reidence upon this account, nor perhaps entertain a wore opinion of the benefits of academical education. Neither hould it be conidered as a matter of light importance, that while we thus extend the undefined of univerity learning, and adopt a new tribe of citizens within thee philoophical walls, we interet a

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