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Obstacles Prejugés —Universities Professors useless
Barrough
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The same reason of the scarcity & dearness of Books
seems to have been the occasion of establishing such professors-
ships as there of History, Divinity and indeed all
sciences which do not require to be explained by experiments which seem now to be totally useless."
OBSTACLES Inconveniences unostensible
Thus is the last strong - hold refuge of the convicted
apologist for an abuse: & a very avoidable
one it is, be the abuse what it will, &
the expediency facility of removing abolishing it what it will,
It is as good for it as always of equal strength.
OBSTACLES PREJ: Antiquity
Envy, vanity, curiosity, & the necessity of conversation all conspire to open our eyes to the
faults of the present age; while that prosperity joined to the disposition to all objects in proportion
to their distance shuts <add>them against those of the past.
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OBSTACLES. DIVINES
which evaporates in the opening of the Closet Door
A Morality, sullen and hollow as it is gloomy, and
which is not mischievous, only because it is
not impracticable
In inculcating those leading and important truths
That Probity consists not in acting without a motive
but in the consequence of the action to public utility therefore
And That be who have assigned a motive had not strictly?
taken away its merit.
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OBST. DIVINES
# imposed by the necessity of their intention
In a common debility of intellect,
their weakness natural or contracted afflicted #
they flatter themselves and with too much
reason will be not seen or not
imparted.
Operated on by the interest both of instance of gain & reputation, is it wonder that &c
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