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APPENDIX. "bdnntry, as not to re]ate to ltar?in?, the trifling "produ&of leud plays, newa-pa?ers, and pamphlets. "And, 0 grief ofgriefi ] the confciou�nef} o� their "own lo? parts, foot �cholarfhip? and other defe&$ "woul.d be fo far from fuggefiing to them the "propriety of'modefly and humility towards their ?' governors, that, in proportion to their leaden "rance, and infuffYcien?, their im?mdenre, and in. "filenee would abound. And this would be the "precious treafure, wherewith the univerfity would �be able to pr' efent the publick. "---- All this is fo agreeable to what I have obt3rved concerning the exerei?s, fludies, le&?res, difputntbns, brayers, and conver?tion of that univerfity, (as any body may be convinced, who will gi?e himfelf the trouble to read my * papers on thole Cubits,) that you almolt �eem to haveflolen the whole paragraph from me.----You o on in this ironical manner: "To be lure tkey are excellently well. prepared to "adorn any fiation with ability, fideht 7, and ho- "hOUr ! To be lure the neceflity of fubmi?ou to "the civil magifirate, and of obedience to the "laws of their country, is fo well impreg'd upon "they% that if there were no-penalties "their own re!te&ions would always keep them "in awe, and make them always f?udious of the "peace, and abftinent of the property of the mean- "e'ft mere. her of the commubiry ! 'To be lure, "ter hav:ng read fi much philofipky, and made "the thoughts of their own mortality Jb fatal- "liar to them, nothing lefs can be expected "of them, than a contempt of the work?, re- ',, a rio?neff );?aation to the divine will, and fl of "lite, as if to-morrow was to be the init day of ' it!" I Vide Terr,?-Filiuq N � Xx, xxxv, xlii. T P=ge ?o 4.