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<head>Macaulay's Hist Vol II. p. 147. A<hi rend='superscript'>o</hi> 1633</head> | |||
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<p>All that <unclear>tract</unclear> is shunned with an instructive horror as if it <del>had</del> the plague | |||
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<add>comparatively</add> unprofitable walks in which a man may | |||
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The branches of knowledge that may be cultivated | |||
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with impunity in a country <add>the convention</add> the | |||
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most enslaved to civil and <del><gap/></del> ecclesiastic | |||
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tyranny are there, and the only ones that | |||
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<head>SUBSCRIPT. - Divert from moral disquisitions.</head> | |||
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Macaulay's Hist Vol II. p. 147. Ao 1633
"the worthy pursuits of science were, with never
failing watchfulness, barred from the subject
"by those Arguses who guard tyranny, the licensors
of the Press. Thus excluded from the
"useful paths of literature, the people of genius
"and fancy applied themselves solely to the writing
plays, and such like kind of compositions"......
which, though they
The genius and effect of an
may be seen in the cast of its productions
Where the force influence of Political or thelogious
Sanctions is employd set at work to guard a set
of favourite tenets from contradiction, that
departments of province of literature to which these tenets
belong is a .
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All that tract is shunned with an instructive horror as if it had the plague
infected it.
The few inhabitants who stir about in that torpid atmosphere confine themselves to those
comparatively unprofitable walks in which a man may
expatiate with impunity.
The first thought of a man is, not whether
what occurrs to him is just, but whether
it is of a with what he has subscribed to.
The branches of knowledge that may be cultivated
with impunity in a country the convention the
most enslaved to civil and ecclesiastic
tyranny are there, and the only ones that
are cultivated in a subscribing University
they may be Phils, Philologists Grammarians,
They may dish up with new garnish the garbage
of antiquity.
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It is [therefore] an institution for the retardment
of moral politial & branch of knowledge, much more
effecacious certainly, than for the advancement of any
other.
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SUBSCRIPT. - Divert from moral disquisitions.
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