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APPENDIX. Indeed, yqu ?em apprehenfive o? this by thole bitter complaints of part luRerings, fcatt�?red fo. plentifully in ygur book, and b.y thot? flurdy refo lutions of * qmtting the educauon of youth, if you are not redreffed; in which I think the odds are, at leaR, romewhat againt? you; --- But I muff now haltea to thole paRages, which you/?em to have copied from me, and which, out of a rmtur?laf- f?,9?0?, ! am inclined to approve. - You gave me teafort to expe& .romething of this. nature by your I'r?face ? which ?s the fineft corn l?Ofit!on, that I ever read, Of thriftinn refignation,. charity, and forgivenifs on one fide; and o1' human rej?ntme?t and g/ferity on the .other. It concludes thus? :' As I have entred into this with due ddtbe- "ratio?, with ood advice, with a clear l?ro�?et! of "its tendenc! to piety, learning and good manners "(?bkb is exat? my ?afe toy) fo I ?all think "my fill happy, if I may be permitted to proceed "in it, without any farther interruption, either from "thole who would obftru& my charity, or from .? thole who would deal away my fchblars." There are two bitter charges contained in this ?eriod: I will juft make a fhort remark upon each of them. By thole who would obffru&your charity, I �up.? pole you mean the Reftor and Fellows of Exete? College, who gave you that grievous ?pb?tion, fo often complained of, to the ineorporatton ?your ball. For m I part, I know nothing of the difpute between you i only the, it feems, the flite of the round. uvon which your ba? Rands, belones to them; and I fu ore they imagined that they had a right ?o optoft any proje? wheh mvad? ?he?r ?r?Ferty. This you ca? ? u?reafo?ble ?p?tion,