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As he will read every day, the Course will last no longer than a Month,
it will not therefore keep me much longer, than I should otherwise have
staid: & as I attended a course with Mr Bliss, I should be admitted upon
the same footing of paying a Guinea as those whose second it is with
the present Professor. as I mentioned something of this before I left
Town & you seemed not to disapprove of it, to save you the trouble
of writing if you should not be disposed, I will take it for granted
I have your permission if I hear nothing to the contrary before Monday:
though a positive would be much more acceptable, than such a
negative authority. — I was examined on Friday last. the little
Parson Coleman who happened to come to Oxford to preach before the
University, was one of my Examiners. I tried to get Masters from
All Souls: but there are none it seems of that rank now in College:
out of 15 or 16, there are but 4 or 5 Seniors, Drs &c the rest, either
Batchelors or Undergraduates. — My six Lectures in the Schools,
vulgarly called Wall lectures, are likewise over.
Your intelligence of the Revolution in the Vernon family, as
you might well imagine, surprized me exceedingly: as to the behaviour
of the old Brute, it is no more than one would expect: I am how-
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