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Profanation if not
ordinarily violated
— as frivolous
Violated by every
body
Eminent subjoined
to violate
of converting
any punishment into
a crime of the first magnitude.
the University
matures the visible if but
It is scarce necessary to observe that among
a body of unthinking youth just escaped from
the trammels of school-discipline, instances
of non-observance must be continual; and
I should be great indeed would be my surprise
to hear one man of veracity get up
and say that he had been for a month
past a month in that seat of piety and
learning and did assert upon his honour
that the whole time had passed elapsed without
his having violated any one article of the laws in
any single instance.

Such would be their is the chance which
this oath would have of remaining unviolated
were they laws of recent manufacture fabric accommodated suggested
inad recent views to present notions and accommodated
to modern present manners; the fact is they the
both of them were drawn up in the days
of Charles I under the influence of Archbishop
Laud and about as well still less conformable
to the notions manners of the present time than the
political notions of that zealous champion of
tyranny are to those most prevalent at
present.

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Univers. Oaths Church Intol Modes Subscrip Univ Oaths

To form a just conception of the baleful effects tendency
of this institution we can not take a fairer more striking specimen
example than that which is afforded by the influence
it appears to have had in the Universities: those
privileged seats of education in which the tincture
given to men's minds by this species of poison
being received by all the Members without exception
must of course be supposed to have acted upon examined their system
an influence of peculiar strength.

Under the insistence shadow of this influence of sacerdotal
sanctity we shall see falsehood refining
into perjury and subornation of perjury; and
the whole community being together in the
most exemplary tranquillity in the habitual
practice of one or or both of these crimes
Such are the sources from whence to which the flower
of the British youth are sent to draw the milk)
of instruction. If the salt has lost its savour
where wherewith says the Apostle, wherewith shall it be seasoned.
The Salt here has not of this In this
the salt has not only lost its savour, but it is
has been for many generations
become the principal seat and source of a corruption rottenness
of the most baleful nature.

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