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N o Terrae-Filius. ,riz'd that Whiggifm declines with' the conflitutioJ cub in Oxx=ot, when we behold people 1t,gmauz cl in this Blztk-Book, and excluded fro their d.ogree} [br j3berly rejoicing ul0ol! king G.oRia's birth-nigh and drinking-hls majefly's health. ' Under the prefeni/rollors, we need be under o a??rehenfions5 one of whom (the reverend Mr.
- .arl) [ have the honoiar to know, and i know him
�to be a perfort of the molt unbias'd integrity and iramoveable zeal againt! all forts of tyranny and cor- r.ptioi he deteffs all inartrell pra&ices himfell =, and will not join with thoj}, who ddi ht in plundei' g =nd rapine3 his own hands are clean, and he will not communicate with the unclean! I'doubt not that his colleague deferve the fame charaeri �o that I am perely eafy under their idminiration i but in othhr left unpolluted hands, what mi�chie�s and oppreffions in the republick of learning may not Inch a terrible engine bring forth ? But �uppofing that a perfon has the good fortune o live thrYe or }our years in the univerlity, without incurring the di�plea�ure of either of the 'ro/0r. i yet it he has difoblig'd any other perfon, who is a memo. her of the �tnvoca5on, his catb is little better every fch member having it in his power to deny an/' candidate his grate twice, without giving any reaf�fo.r it; anti if le can trump up any idle 1tory a. gain h:n, which is an eafy matter) he can pur hm by .. ( ms degree for a whole year. This is the molt arbitrary method of proceeding in the world i for why flould it be in the power o any man to refufea perton his grae tvoie (which rlt�cm'd a fcandalous thing. up. on the candidate ) with- out any reafon? This puts t into his power to Wreak h. malice upon whom he leats, and deters all thb juntors o the umverfiry from riffMing In opmlon . or pt ol:etllon flora their )qnivrs, who ha/� fuch an advantage bvcr thn.' Indeed, no perfort can deny' Vo,.. II, E any
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