/?r of a fon, o?' what quality or condition foevet, to lay it to heart. I know there are many living, who have been eye.wimeffes, I wifh I could nor fly inflrances, the mi/i:h/efs that have from hence accru'd. Many are, indeed, ingenuous enough to own the great conveniences, which, by long encouragement in i:!le- ne?5, the.re pretended nur!es of heroes and patriots have brought u?on them. There are many within and without me walls of our unieertities, who know and will acknowledg?e (and let any hod5, de- ny it who can) that the education of a perfort of' diltin?ion at Oxvouo, inftead of being, as it ought, the molt firicily' taken care of, is ot-'all the roof[ neglehted; a nobleman may bring any thing from. college but learni.ng5 but there is generally cffccq:ual care taken that li:i'G-- fhall not want temptations to en'ice him from ftudying too hard. A gentle? man-commoner, if he be a man of fortune, is loon told, that it is not: expee"ted from one o!' his form to mind exercifes: if he is fiud?ous, he is motore, an.ct a heavy booklib fellow' if he keeps a cellar wine, the good-natur'd ?bllows will indulge him, tho' he fl?ould. be too heavy-headed to be at chapel in a morning. Thus we ti.e even religion in as lit- tle elteem as morality' wi?h 'era, ?ho', perhaps, it is a little more pretended to, or talk d o?, by them. There is a lower form or two o?' youth, who come in for a child's part in the bofom o{' the�e our tender mothers; their behaviour towards thelh is of a medley kind, according to the dcfigns they' have upon 'era; only one fixt maxim prevails, 295 0 that have m 0 money muff have leafi te.,.rning. tlo not fay, that every poor young f'dlo?r iS on the contrary ifiltrue�in any ufet?l or beneficial know- led�but i,f he be one ,,uho promi�es ,.veil to O/and his mothers friend hereafter, or a friend td:the thur?b, (which is a word, they make ufe of to nif-y
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