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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."
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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.
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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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