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author come next under confideration. Various views of his fub- 

 jed will prefent themfelves, various trains of affociated thought 

 will fucceflively arife in his mind. But affociations of that par- 

 ticular fort to which his habits have been formed will occur 

 moft readily, and be received with the cordiality of intimate 

 acquaintance. Man has been faid to be a bundle of habits : 

 habit then will account for the frequent recurrence of a kindred 

 train of thinking in the mind of the fame perfon, and the prc- 

 difpofition for that to which it has been accuftomed will fecure to 

 it a preference. 



Should the fame range of thought prefent itfelf to the mind 

 of authors different in their habits and difpofitions, what has been 

 faid may ferve to {hew that it would not with all meet an 

 equally friendly reception. It is not, however, at all probable 

 that the fame range of thought fliould occur. No man, it has been 

 obferved, forgets his original trade. The rights of nations, fays 

 Dodor Johnfon, fink into queftions of grammar when grammarians 

 difcufs them. A mathematician confidering a fubjedl not mathe- 

 matical will from habit employ himfelf in an analytic inveftigation 

 of its properties and caufes. A lawyer will apply to folving ob- 

 jedions and fcrutinizing diftindions. Profeflional men of every 

 defcription will recur to thofe ideas and trains of thought to which 

 they •have been accuflomed. Dramatic writers, who underflaiid 

 charader, conftantly mark out each profeflion, by a peculiar train 

 of thought as well as a technical language. 



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