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Master. He declared, That that ahjurd and faalifjPhilosophy, <which the World so much admired, propagatedby the late Mr. Ho bees, and others, had undone him,and many more, of the beft Parts in the Nation.

From the Breasts of his Mother, the University, hefirst . fucked those Perfections of Wit, Eloquence, andPoetry, which afterward;, by his own corrupt Stomach,or some ill Juices after, were turned into Poison to him-self and others j which certainly can be no more *Blemish to those illustrious Seminaries of Piety and goodLearning, than a disobedient Child is to a wife andvirtuous Father, or the Fall of Man to the Excellencyot Paradise.

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Earl of Rochester.

By Dr, Burn et, in some Pa fag es of hisLife and Death, &c.

T HIS Noble Lord appeared at Court with as greatAdvantages as most ever had. He was a grace,sol and well-stiaped Person, tall and well made, if nota little too slender : He was exactly well-bred, and,what by a modest Behaviour natural to him, what by a

Civility