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fuch fcholars who attend as their difciples or 

 auditors ; and to whom they give, when they 

 have finifhed their courfes, certificates of their 

 qualifications, degrees, diplomas, and the doc- 

 torial habit. Thefe profeflbrs, moreover, af- 

 femble in their refpective faculties, to decide 

 fuch cafes as may be prcfented to them, and 

 come under their proper jurifdiction : and laft- 

 ly, they aflemble in a body, and by uniting the 

 four faculties, they form, under the authority of 

 curators, a chancellor, a rector of each faculty, 

 and with the concurrence of a fyndic or fecre- 

 tary, a treafurer, and other fubaltern officers, 

 the fenate of the univerfity. The firft book of 

 this work (hows what are the particular fciences 

 that are taught in univerfuies, and come pro- 

 perly under their direction. But modern prac- 

 tice fand a very advantageous practice it is) has 

 introduced at univerfuies, profeflbrs of hiftory, 

 of the principal fciences that compofe the belles 

 lettres, fome of the polite arts, exercifes, &c. 

 So that a young man, who devotes himfelf to 

 ftudy, will find at the univerfity the common 

 fource of all the fciences ; a fource that flows 

 in various ftreams, and from whence he may at 

 once choofe that to which he propofes parti- 

 cularly to apply "himfelf and at the fame 

 time drink as much as he thinks proper of all 

 the reft. This afiemblage of all the fciences 

 affords thofe, who devote three or four years of 

 their life to the acquifition of knowledge, the 

 greateft facility, and the mod folid advantages. 



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