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dependent of the world, and confequently 
carelefs of its future fmiles or frowns; but 
I am perfuaded, that, if the utility of the 
fyftem of education were more apparent, 
they would apply. Damn if, fays a Fellow 
Commoner, what have I to do with Mathema- 
tics? and as for Homer and Virgil \ I learnt 
enough of them atfchooL 
I humbly conceive, that Qmntilian fhould 
be particularly recommended to every ftu- 
dent in the Univerfity; that it would be a 
proper text for a courfe of lectures, and 
that every pupil, of a certain (landing, fhould 
be repeatedly exercifed in public declama- 
tion. 
The prefent Prime Minifter may pofilbly , in 
fome future period, find leifure to beftow a lit- 
tle confideration on a matter of fo much im- 
portance as the reformation of the Univerfi- 
ties. He was himfelf educated at Cambridge; 
he cannot therefore be infenfible of the Go- 
thic abiurdity of a fyftem, which is not well 
calculated for the education either of Gentle- 
men, Lawyers, Phyficians, or Divines. Ne- 
verthelefs, I am very far from intending the 
moft diftant reflection on any individual in 
the Univerfity. The imperfections are not 
recent abufes 5 but the natural refult of an 
un- 
