N O xxxv. Ter,t-$Ihts. met;, cape& at the fame time your hats, and your raoney too. It cannot be deny*d that there are, amongfl: the clergy, �ome as well bred, 'candid, and aecomplifh'd men; of as fine fenfe, as noble principles, and 1- ibera! Imowledge as amongR the laity, though notj? ma- ny: but it rnuf[ alfo be confefli:d that they owe n'one of thefe advantages to their academical eru-. dieion, ftri&ly confidered, but either to a generous? innate temper of mind, which clefpiles all reittaints in the purfuit of truth; or ell? to convetfition with the polite, and the ttudy.of men, having firIt quit- ted thole muddy fountains of ill-nature and fat. l? knovledge. DoCtor $ww?e !fays, (if the pro/eg! for the vancement of religio? be his) "That if no advan- ?' tage of knowledge can? be had from thorn places., "(meaning the univerfities) the time there/'pent "at be? utterly loft, becau�e every orna.,r?,ntal part "of education is ?etter taught niCewhere. I am glad to find that the fair ladie? of ?'ngland have, of late years, fo much altered their opinion of the gentlemen of the black robe, and of an uni- ?'erfit� education. In days of yore, which were days of ignorance, barbarifin, and �uperttition, thing w?$ thought fo engaging and agreeable amongIt them as an hand�orne young d?rki for which I coald give three or four reaibns i but one will be �tffficienr. The clergy enjoyed, at that time, all that forereign ?lmitude of power, which their mouths water enioy no,v; and therefore their would fuffer none to be ?ve? drefi'd, or we//fed, or to talk commo? Innf e, but themfelvesi a good dinner was called pam- pering the fiefl? .; a good .fuit of doathes, or a clean faire, was pride, and taking too much care of that vile Tabernacle of cla?, the body i and all freedom of couverfatioa was here.?, and the wor. k?gs of car.
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