.q, PPEN'D IX. our atnderaital emdition i and as I apprehended that /uch an undertaking could not be carried on without interfering, in rome meafure, with what I had writ. ten, I put a Prop to the pr�8, till I had perufed your difcourfe. I .own that I was not a little difippointed in my expe?ations, and furpriz'd to find that, ttead of a general view of our ?du.eation at Oxford, as the nears-papers t?emed to pro/m?., you had put ?k r t?tf to the trouble of writing fo voluminous a upon the infuffdenty and eluj?n of one patti. cu'.arfiatute ? whereas, when you _was upon that fub. jecrt, and maintaining the cau?: of'academical fiine in fo learned-and firenuous a manner, you might certain? have taken rome other fiaturn into confide- ntion, which are equally infuj?cient for the purpot?g intended, or equally evadedin the execution; as well ? rome other praSit?s in that univerfity, full as pcr- nicious in their effe?s, full as obnoxious to confute, and therefore not leli worthy ol youranimadverfion, and the explication of' thole to whom you appeal. I could wilh that you had done this? both for m?' ?tisfa?ion, (who am very defirous to fee this mat- ter fully cleared. up) and to t?cureyour own charac- ter flora [the m?prefentations of your l?nemie? and smki?d lqeigkbour?, fo grievoufly. eomphined. of, who will not fail to make uf? of tNs opportumty to re- fleO upon you, .for confining your thoughts to Jingle.{tat?tte, which fo immediately and vifibly tend, to yourowninter?and perfond 'views: for may they not infer, as I doubt not they are ready to do, that it is not fo much the publick goM of the r. lniverfi'ty in Reneral, as private advantage, wl?ich employsyour pe?, and animates yot]'r zeal? that ifttartittall not Iolt rome of its Ftp. ils by a parti&hr accident, {which perhaps they will xefate in a different man- her, from what you have done) the world would not have been obliged with fo hborious a volume ?l=on the defetti, e?efi of a !tatere, which amidit
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