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APPENDIX, ?' for it, hanker after it., are uneafy without it, and "at fall, carry this mean, pernicious, finful habit "along with them to their refpeOive ]?ttleme#tt, "when they go abroad into the world?6,,v." with a great deal more to the fame p.urpot? which it would be needle?, and too obnoxJom,'even for m, to repeat. The next point, in which you leem to imitate me, is concerning the Smarts, of whom you f_IX'ak thu, {agreeably to what * I have obferv'd upon thoik Gentle- men) ? "To wt, arfine eloath6 is not to be an oran. "merit to a fociety: an unity and. ffmplicity ofd. refs, of '* materials, if not grave, certainly not gay, ?s more "l?enteel, more manly, more fuited to the 1tudious "li'�e, more ex?rettive of a mind intent upon learning, "a?c! inquifitiveafter knowledge: and of a contempt "of what the effeminate and alliterate are wont to "admire."--- Again you fpeak to the tame effe&: "finery, in an Umv?s? amongIt t?holars, in "a fi:holar, and while he is profefl?dly "of thole improvements which adorn the mind, "is? even in a per/on of fortune, an irafro fiery, if "not m abfurdity, So that thi= tort or' mertt, ii- it "entitles him to any refpe? from his merrer who �' doaths him with it, or from his =altt who ttrips "him of it, cannot ?ntitle him to any from his G0- ? ?y?lOy. ?' You go on againl! the pre?nt �xtrzv?gance oftLe

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-J-" Neither is it to be an ornament to a fociety, "tofi?d a g7/eat deal of moneyinit, in cofi',y treats "and entertainments: for frugality, which is fobca' "and tem ewe, which avoids as well cardifs a ? .. . nd "unnecefliry, as vtc?ous and yam expences, ?bat I Page ? P?ge ?7f.