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mutt nor be too wife; t'harpers wouki n?' ??t ?aming-?bles, i[ ?e men o[ fortune knew bite. Whate?rer ! have here laid down, I rubmir to t/m �enfure of the t?vereft judges. The unbiaf'd will, that I hope, bellcore and agree tbe? grievous?eaor.- rnities fland in need of refo.rmation: the fuffe.5. ers by

hem are, and will be obhged to pray for It l the

attors and abettors of them, as they julfly dread, will, by that means, to fly no more of' them, be fhewn as they are. Tha?ik God,. we have feen.a little the lhte of a profperous ?illa,n fallen from height, and reapi? the reward due to his crimes. 1 would not b e thought to have alledged any' thing in prejudice to thol? gentlemen who may' pretend to be feverdy 'cenfure?t in what I have 'rhe matters of fa& are true, and, God help us, ndt few in number. i make no a!lufions to particular men: let the firicken deer go weep; let the Fee i?:noceat take warning. I fpeak to the world, and hope for the regard of all t.hofe whot? interell it is to take care of the education of youth, whom I. with to t?e in times-to come brought up in founder and honeRer principles than has been of !ate the pro&ice. What can the prefent a?, or the next, from us, and ours, upon whom the misfortune of our ca?: is fo very hard, that either we mul? our youth at home, by our chimney-corners, put them into poffeffion of' our e?tes, inll'ru&ed no better than gr,ooms, without one qualifies- our tion, From the knowledge of mankind, to make figure in the world won y their birth and fortuae? or by knding them to the pretended feminaries of virtue and learning, prottimte them to the bale .figns of thole whol? buffneff we fee it has been. and ?s, to enfnare th. em into all the traps that giddy boys an be caught lai and make them, at any rate,. the D' to&