Page:Terræ-filius- or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford.djvu/103

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Teme. Fi!i,us. 6 7 now in fo? forei? univerSties, and had only pub- lick ?hool$ to m?t and d?pute in? but in progrefs of rime, fo ?amour'd of this t?heme were ?veral ?Bn?, that when they died, they left their eftares to ound little univerfities, under the rear univerfi- ty, ?11ed colleges, and to rupert an head, and a certain numb? of fellows. ?hefe fewal colleges, or private f?cietie?, make up co?e&ive!y the pubtick univerfity, and the he?!? and governors of the? colleges are alfo the gover. ? and dire?or? of the univerfity: the rhaned!or I efttern only a titular ?overnor,-the ,ite-?aneell? anf,?ers to the fub-g?[rnor? the pro-viee-rhan?elkr to the deputy-governor, and the heads of colleges to tie directs. ? puffue the para?el thiefore, let us examine wheth? there dire?ors have not broke their trufi, ?nd do not dereryc puni&ment as well as the o- thers: or rather let us examine whether they ought n6? ?b!ickly to ? examin? wheth? they have ?ok? it or not, tinct fiey lie und? fuch ?ioI?e fufpicions of having broken it; and no more than this could be fiid of the others? fill they had ,x?ined. I concei? the rum of ?he charge again? the 8outh.fla d?reflors to be this: that they have e?fi- dioufly broken a gr? nu? ?epofed in them, b? the gov?nment and the proprietors? that under of ?y?ng the nation's debts, and incr?fing publick wtflth and publick ?it, they have ?Iunder'd the nation, and funk publick w?lth and publick cr?it to the 1owe? d?gs; that they ?ve either fiaudu. lently e?bezzeI'd to themfelves, or unwarrantably fquander d away (they know not how norto whom) the money and ?ock of thole p?Fons who chore and hired them to manage it for their advantage; t?t they have ?en g?Ity of in[?mous practices of all