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since its various objects have been attained. 

 But^ as in my opinion, it deserves to be still 

 further considered, whether an accurate know- 

 ledge or estimation of some preceding acts of 

 the college might not possibly have produced a 

 doubt in your Lordship's mind, on the pro- 

 priety of surrendering to them the sole deter- 

 mination of claims, which they have various 

 and manifest temptations to determine unjustly, 

 I shall venture to trespass a little longer upon 

 your Lordship's patience, by offering a few 

 additional observations upon this part of my 

 subject. 



The first I shall make is derived from a cir- 

 cumstance in the general conduct of the col- 

 lege, of which your Lordship took notice, when 

 you delivered your opinion upon Dr. Stanger's 

 second application. On that occasion your 

 Lordship said : "By what fatality it is, that 

 almost since this charter has been granted, this 

 learned body has somehow or other lived in a 

 course of litigation, I know not ; one is rather 

 surprised, when one considers, that the several 

 members of this body, including the licentiates, 

 the commonalty of this corporation, are very 

 learned men : and as much as it is not generally 

 the fruits of learning, at least not the best fruits 

 of learning, to get into litigation, one cannot 

 tell how those learned gentlemen have fallen 



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