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Excerpt from Lachrymæ Academicæ, or the Present Deplorable State of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, of Queen Elizabeth, Near Dublin
Lick, in a detail of incontrovertible faéts, the manner in which he thinks fit to govern the College. Iam indebted to the College of Dublin for my education, and my prefent em ployment I was a member ofit for twenty three years and upwards, and one of its F el lovv's for fifteen years my moft valuable. Friends are' atiprefent Fellows Of it, but, from the rigour of it's ftatutes, deprived even of the poor confolation of complaint for the injuries and infults already heaped upon them, and which they daily fufi'er. I can not therefore, fit an unconcerned fpeé'tator of its mifery and ruin butif none of thefe mo rives had exifted to incite me to my prefent Undertaking, yet my regard for the intereft of learning and religion, would fufficien'tly fiimulate me to make an effort, however weak, to prevent their total extirpation from this realm, in which they were fo happily planted by the renowned Elizabeth.' The conduct of Mr. Hutchinfon to me, whilft I remained a Fellow, will appear, in the fol lowing fheets, candidly related But left it fhould be aerted, or infinuated by him or his friends (if any friends he has) that my private ammofity againi't him, on account of.
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