26 Terre.FIus. N �xv. retra_ation, ' even that common one of having their ?ardon ask d. If this was not a futilelent fpecimen of thelrbru- tality to STRa?c�RS, I could produce, out of their own hittorians, various inttances of an implacable Oirit always prevailing amongtt them againll aliens ?f all/brts, even .?ews, /'up/fit, and the belt of churchmen: but I forbear to do it, being/?nfiblethat many people will fly they ought to be commended, initend ofridicul'd, fer what I/hould alledge and pro. v? againll them; it being the great and diftingui/hmg charaSerittick of a true-born Church-of-England-man,. to love none but his own rsuntry, and his own re Neither do I find that thet? trencher.caps are more ?olite to their own dear country. men, than they are to ]breig?ers, or make a whir the better figure in the englifl? beaumonde than in the memoirs of travelkrs ? they fuck in four dogmatical principles as loon as they come to college, and being, for the firf? years? obli. ged to rubmir to the flarched 1sedantry and caprice of J?periors, they expe& the time formalities, and thetime adu!ation, when they come to be of the famefiandi?g, which they piid themrelies; in fhort, pride, l?etulsn. 9', and ill-breeding, are the fir8 and !aft leftohs which they learn at the univerfities. To what elfe can it be imputed, that �o many of ?ur country e#rates and vicsrs are jult fuch ill-man. ner'd downs as thole they preach to, unfit for the converfifion of the town, the court, or ofany civi- liz'd affembly ? They know nothing of the world, and it would be very well if the world knew no- thing of them; they have mean, groveling, vulgar fauls. and yet we may obl?rve in tt?ee?raa?eVr?:yveP)et?a: tiful leven'of pride and ambition; tisfied with the refpe& which is paid them, any more than they are with their tithes and wage,. Lln- onfcionable wretches !who, unlik all other tr?def-
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