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the reasonings of refinement—our own language 
ought not less to demand from us some attention 
in our more mature years—that language which 
flows constantly from our tongues and our pens, 
in which we express all our thoughts, and inter- 
change our ideas. He may be, and he is a great 
scholar, who can write Greek and Latin prose, 
or compose Epics and Lyrics in these languages, 
almost as well as the authors, who left behind them 
the models for such imitations: but that man, be 
he who he may, is the best scholar, who speaks 
his native tongne most purely, and writes it the 
most chastely and knowingly in all its primitive 
force, and elegant but eloquent simplicity. 
