have been ſo often miſrepreſented by my enemies, and amwithal ſo diffident of my own merit, that I almoſt diſpair of ever ſeeing my deſigns looked upon in a true light, and my writings underſtood in their genuine ſenſe. I intended, by Terræ-Filius, to juſtify the Univerſity, by expoſing the practices of her unworthy members, and endevouring to reform her corruptions. This, it ſeems, is looked upon as the ſame with expoſing the Univerſity itſelf, and is accordingly expelled, by your authority, as a nuiſance. In the ſame manner I deſign this Dedication as a mark of Reſpect; but I ſhall not be in the leaſt ſurprized, if what I really intend for a compliment, ſhould, by your better judgement, be condemn'd as a libel.
I am informed that the learned author of Univerſity Education is pleaſed to ſpeak with great contempt of my Remarks upon it; and defies ſuch a Boy, as I am, to blemiſh his eſtabliſh'd reputation. I muſt confeſs, indeed, that I am not yet altogether fifty years of age, nor have I reſided, as he has done, above one and thirty years in the Univerſity of Oxford; but, I think, however, that I am paſt my firſt childhood, and I hope not entered into my ſecond; when ſome men ex-
