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48 Terra-Fili: nile) ' one that is none to the fi4te,) then I aft'ufo you no care is wanting, no labour is finred to com- plete him in their darling principles. If' he will but laugh at oaths to his King, and think tho�e facrecl to the univerfity, all is like to go well with him all little faults are c?nniv'd ati only, if he gets drunk, he mull be lure to talk treafon, and damn the Whigs: if'he tin'es a w.-.re, as long as he does but love the church as well, he may enjoy both i de. grees, na? holy orders are ne?,er deny'd for fuch peccadilloes; and from llep to/tep he goes through the tivour of all his mother's heft children to a c0-1. lege iiving. There is a cullom attributed to the colleges of jefuits abroad by many writers, that they have al- ways fome referv'd tenets to the fociet,y, which they trul} but to few hands l many filvo s {br trifling fins, and many t?cret method? of turning great crimes into little ones i and it is a known maxim, That no novice is to be entitled to any Ihare in the ttewardflfip of thelb m�1teries, till he is capable of adding one to the number' then, m /bn, carl in th lot among us, let us all have one Imrfi, we fhall tr:ciou, fitbrian,e, ?ve fiJatl fill our H o v s i! s ?vith There is another locicry in his majetty's good town of' Lom?; one ?tonathan 14"--d. is head of the hour, who approve and apply this pra?ice to tittle. I wifh, fbr the fake ot the honeit among my countrymen, there were no more. I have fl?et'.:n, I think, a pretty plaufible tea/on for the care that thet? tender mothers take of their babes, and fairly acquitted them of any de- ignormcci t, bat, I think?/peaks itfilf, tl? wealthy