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That unprosperous race of men, commonly called men of letters,

are pretty much in the situation which lawyers and physicians

probably would be in, upon the foregoing supposition. In every

part of Europe, the greater part of them have been educated for

the church, but have been hindered by different reasons from

entering into holy orders. They have generally, therefore, been

educated at the public expense; and their numbers are everywhere

so great, as commonly to reduce the price of their labour to a

very paltry recompence.