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no Univerfities are fo munificently endow- 
ed; no other Univerfities poffefs fuch pub- 
lic and college libraries; and certainly no 
feminaries of learning can boaft fo many 
members of diftinguifhed erudition in every 
branch of literature : but thefe fingular ad- 
vantages are facrificed to an unavoidable 
(unavoidable, in the prefent ftate of things) 
compliance with ancient ftatutes, manners, 
and cuftoms. 
LET- 
