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Excerpt from The Academic, or a Disputation on the State of the University of Cambridge, and the Propriety of the Regulations Made in It, on the 11th Day of May, and the 26th Day of June 1750
I know not what others might think of thefe Advertifements, but they engaged my Attention very firongly at the Time of their Publication, and the more fo, when it appear'd, that at leaf't one Part of the Produétion in the latter, was foon after follow'd by the Event it had fore told. Upon this, I was in hopes we {hould foon fee the promis'd Account of this Re formation; fuppofing that the Advertifer mufi at leafi be as well acquainted with the Defigns of his own Party, as he could pretend to be with thofe of his Adverfaries. Not that an impartial one could be expected for the Parties in a Difpute are commonly too much engaged in it [to fpeak the Truth, free from any corrupt Mixture. But as one Account would probably have been follow'd by another from the oppofite Side, a pretty exaél: Knowledge of the Dif pute might have been colleé'ted, by com paring the different Reprefentations of the two contending Parties.
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