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by the debilitation of character

loss of spirit - [By the extinction of all
those generous qualities which accompany characterise
independence] But what have they to do those
who want neither to serve nor to be served?
God forbid I should be understood to refuse to
- - - - - -
the sweets of friendship or stigmatic with the
reproach of servility every connection formed
betwixt persons unequally favoured with the
gifts of fortune - Nothing can be further from alike to
my breast than sentiments so weakly cynical.
My meaning is but this - - to represent the
notion of the presumption against connections
formed under such auspices.

Tis theseScholars, Servitors, do Gentlemen as they are
thought to call themselves, do the offices of Footmen
to men, to of whom it is not pretended
A tenure worse than Villinage
they want any thing but riches to be [the] equals.

This is the state of things in which [+] the Republic
[+] in a place that would be thought the metropolis
of Letters, & under a religion which

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puts holds Riches in under disgrace.

To necessitate them to excell in qualities which
give a superiority to any one possession that possesses than
by supporting the influence of those peculiar
to themselves.

I despise lament what they are - I reverance what
they might be.

Instance of conniving at the breach of Laws -
v. a Narration of the dispute in New College
about between the Warden and Crow a Tutor
there upon his Pupils' keeping a Servant
The 2d Letter in hand. Evening March 17-19.
1774.

Absurdity inof Saunderson - While an Oath solemnly
taken does not make the Creation of
it guilty of Perjury - a simple engagement
a fide dataa huic Universitate does

TERRAE FILIUS I


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When Chiron sings this beautiful apologise took... young Achilles under his charge ways
the beautiful apolog of the ancients
he fed nourished him with Lion's marrow.

With What do is it that they feed their Pupils? with. With the
Diet drink of mumbled oraisons three times
a day repeatedforced down, with the opiate laudanum of Sermons
printed at request, with the picacuanlia
of Creeds & Catechisms, with the Arsenic of
Subscriptions & [unbelievable] Paths engagement. [not to be
observed] made only to be broken

Fruits in Pastry with Mottos instead of a Kernel-
made taken to be broken - The Motto in these is
£100 a year, 1,000 £ a year, 10,000 £ a year.

We read in the Biographia Britannica are told of a time,
that in the of Sark when the wisdom and piety of the University
met together to sit in judgement on the heretical
[+] or whether it is that it has been more continually reproduced by the same union of ignorance & timidity narrow mindedness which originally gave it birth:
performance: For the suppression of it, all was
unanimity. but there were some debates about the
manner About the thing itself - It was at last "concluded", say
our Authors that without any public censure
each head of a house should endeavour to prevent
it's being read in his own college+." + v. Biographia Britiannica - Life of Locke [quoted in Priestly: Essay on the 1st Principle of Government. p82. Ed.1768.
I know not whether the resolution has been
handed passed down by tradition from scull to scull as a choice
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<p>political arcanum:[+] but this I know that
for any thing I ever heard of this essay during
a 8 7 year's residence in the University
(I mean from Professors, Tutors, Spiritual
Pastors and Masters) I should never have
known of it's existence.

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church of englandism

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031

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terrae filius

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1

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jeremy bentham

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