-44 APPENDIX. go. doing, when the itatute is en[oreed with a firea- get penalty, and more efleeSual fine2ion, give me leave to call this only a gr"n?is dic2um i it will be in vain to tall us, that a good Governor will not re- f?_(? his difie/?t to any fcholar who has behareel well, and ?n advance hinitilf by rem?ving dire&ff begging the queflion, and imp!ymg, not on- ly that all the prq?nt Gevemors of colleges and halls are g?od men, and imparting Governorsi (whereas, perhaps, there may be one or two inl!ances to the contrary, as I {hall prove from you own words,) but it fuppofes farther, that there never was, and never will be any fuch thing as a b?d Governor, as long as the nniver#ty thnds. Perhaps you-witl reply, that fu?pofing any Go. ?emor {hould be fo unreafonable, or ?icked, a? to refuge a fcholar his d?effit, w;ho has even the juteft caufe to &fire it, yet he has I?erry to a?- peal to the Vice-chancellor, who can himfell give him leave, ?oithout the congent of his Governor: but this alfo comes to much the time; ?for how can I be fure that he ?vill give me leave, which de. pends entirely ?on what fort of a ma? the Vice- chancellor fhall happen to be i whether a jutt honeft impartial man, who weighs things with an equal batlancei or one., who will pieter the irrien?ifl?ip and good corrq?ondence of a brother Head, wiih whom he hath been long intimate, to the tingle requea of a poor unknowny0ung Lad, againf? whom, l:erha�?, the Gv?'ernor has hnjufty ?re?off, efl'ed him.. This, Sir, is fo far from being a chimerical prehenf?n, that in all ?robability, it would often be the ca?i efpedally -,?hen party runs high, and the merit of men is not decided by learnlag and induf- try, but by a certain zeal for this or that prevailing opinion. Inorder to give this argument {ome ?eight, I mull &rue you to c? youx thoughts back to the
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