Page:Terræ-filius- or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford.djvu/308

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?N '� Terre. Filius. Where is the freedom of luffrages in this, or in. any other care, if pcrfons are to be brow-beaten.. by a tyrant, and told, Vote j?, if you darer I'll a ?.at k upon you, a?d talte care that you ]hall haw 50 livings, nor offices, nor pupils, nor tefiimoniums m ?r college i' Du have liberty, gentlemen, to vote m you pieaft; but look to it, I h?z.e the t?ovoer in my. hands, and ;roe be to him that dares to dif. oblig, me. This is a negative voice with a wimefsi for any !feud of a college, who has poffefFed himfell of this power, by corrupting to his own purpofis a majo- rity of the fallows, (in cotlege? where all the are upon an ?uality) or-a majoriiy of the 13nior .fdL,:v$, (in cotle?, where the adminiltration is lodg'd m their hands) is the moll .arbitrary tyrant upon earth i he bribe? one part of his fdb=ot in order to domineer over the reit, who mutt either rubmir to. I?. oppre?'d in this manner, or to be expelI'd, and. give place to thof'e that willi he care? not what does, to indttlge his pride or refentment, becauti: he knows he can do any thing with impunity, and. generally without cen�ure; t-'hr if any body com- plains of his tyrannical a&ions, to that it reache? his ears, he will make him, as the flying. is, co,n- plain for fome. parpole. This, Sir, is the care of the perfon, ct}'whom I have been �peakingi he. always keeps a majority of votes under his Kirdle i ant[ by that means com- mits all the a&s.of'?'iolence, fi'au'd,tyranny,and op- preltlon, that either hi? pride or his malice can infpJre. In the !0re/?nt initante four gentlemen are mark'd out to fall his timrice, for giving one diibbliging vote l fevcral others, who had no votes, have been. for�'d 'to bre?k .off old friendfhips, or conceal them ? To mention my name is a crime; but to write to me, or be in my company, is c??it. ali nay, it has