Terve4'lius. xvx. or: this as their governing principle. I was lately ask'd by a near Telation of mine, who has been a tenant there rome time, if', in my confcience, I thou?oht he and his brotherhood ought not to trufted ?v?th thesr liberty, as well as the tribi? of t?ulra?ts, fia3fcrib?r?, &c. I own, I was going to grant him his point, when he run on fo oddly, .again? the condu? of the adminillration, in rome ?a,,e particulars, that prov'd to me the Poor man muff geeds be very mad 3 I fl?ook my head in to. ken of rnjt compaflion and fuperior reafon, and left faire, It mull not be forgot, that there are rome a very few) who are under the direr:ion of an odd ?rindpte enough; they call it their con/iience: I be- lieve the term is unii?telligible antl obfolete, excc N to a few of my dffci?les within the liberties, with whom I ?all at Fretint leave iti only adding, that this inci?',e (however aukwarcl and hnta_ftic they rr, ay th?k ?:} would have a very good elFeft: m a dignify d clergyman, or the Head of a college. And I mull do a certain :?enth the jullice to fly,, that I lino,;, above or.e or two of that reverencl body, who ure raves to this princi?leat this very day. I fi eak what I think the trtah,and I don t care whethera.n? body believes me or not. But from my ?wn little obfcrvation I have been ??t to think, that mankind is molt generally under the power of another principle, which is of infinite variety, and partakes frequently of rome one or other ?f the forego' ing principles, and yet is in many re- fl?eO?s tlifferent frown an]of them:? 'tis what ! fhall at prefent ditiinguifh by the name of Fltr?ot,?, or that irarticular bent of mind? that obftinate turn of fondntis and inclination, ?,hich altooil every one �eel? rome time or other, for �ome favourite trifle, rome good that .?.lls chiefly in the fancy, and is of- ten inconftttent esther with intereft, re?utation, ?ea- iotl,
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