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x7z APPENDIX. "there may be always wherewith to be jufi and "good and ?ra?ce?t, that there may be no alii. "er$6, nor tem?tati.on to do mean or ?vickedthin?s "throagh nec?ty, :s one great part of univerfi9 "?a!uc?ition." This is all very true, and an excellent obl?rvatio,n, in general; but I hope it is not particularly levelt d at any of your Brother Heads, for refuting you a place in their Pu:vAvs JusTos and Cas?Ls. --You pro. ceed thus: ?'" All our academical inttitutions have thi; "view: they all tend this way: a plainne? of diet "made acceptable by' evening fobfiery and early ?', frog; and this, in amoderate portion atfiatedtimes, is the univerfil rule of this place; and is of fingu. "lar ufe, whether it be confider'd as an help to the "cvntem�1ation of the fiudious, or as a pre?rvative "of health to the fedentary, or as a guard to the "iur. oc?ce of youn men, whole paffions are prel- �g "ling ?ritb force upon them: for any young Gen- �' fieman, therefore, to diflipate a ?reat deal "in fo needlefi, faimproper, and cu- lpablean expence', "betaufo he is rich enough to afford it, or ?ain enough ,' to affeO? it, and thereby to introduce into there places "of education a reluSance to corn I with the "methods of hfe here propos'd an'] requlr'd; a nicety �' and tkga?e in eating and drinkingi difpofitiors "to luxury and idlen?5, and the naturul confequence5 �' thereof,'is not to adorn a focicty, but to "it? is to hinder any body elfe from beinganorna- "ment to iti an'? the way to entitle him/elf, not to "his Governor's efttern, but to his very great dif- "pleaCure." I cannot, Sir, fufl?cientl� apphud/this elaborate dechmation againfl the pro tqPn'e'sand delieac lately introduc it into oxford i an enormity of fuch lanai con- Page 17?.