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verning States or keeping " the reckonings of a tap-
ster." " 'Tis his profession," What command over the
world's praise has the Mathematician, who has passed
his forty years also, in the Teacher's chair. " 'Tis his
profession." If a Chancellor could dance like Vestris
indeed, or rival Vickery in the manufacture of his own
wig, that would be matter worthy of a statue. The
man who is not a good Dancer or a Greek scholar,
professing to be one, and living by the trade, ought t&
be hanged. There is abundance of demerit in the want,
but wondrous little honour in knowing a trade and per-
forming a duty. But the race of the Porsons is praised
for its Greek, as only you and I ought to be, if we had
tacked that supererogatory work to our law, poetry, geo-
logy, and physic. Such is the justice of the world.
EN ft or Tilfi YlliRD VOLWiilE,
Joseph Mallett, Printer, 59, Wardour Strtet, Soho, London.