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touching some points , which have not been 

 within the scope of these elucidations, or of 

 more completely enforcing some leading prin- 

 ciple. Like other institutes of more serious 

 import, I shall throw them into the form of 

 negations ; to the peremptory tone of which, if 

 you should be disposed to start objections, yon 

 will be pleased to recollect, that the subject is 

 of a nature upon which a man may readily 

 enough claim the privilege of being a little 

 dogmatical. 



MAXIMS*. 



NEVER let your dog have a will of his own : 

 froni the first moment of his entering upon 

 what, in the phrase of your universities, 

 may fairly enough be termed his course of 

 humanities, he is to take the direction of 

 his every action from you. 



* TA AOFMATA. ETYM. Aaroc a &ucj/, mordeo; 

 Anglic^, dogge; teste illustrissimo Casaubone; et /zarrw pro 

 /uao-ffw, ferio; q. d. dog-flogging : imperiosa quippe voce 

 enuutiauda, manuque magistri inscribenda, Axiomata. 



