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have had their talents in like manner appretlated; and 

 many are the perfons v/ho can neither be exalted to liiblime 

 ideas with Homer, nor ravilhed with the natural touches of 

 a Shakefpear. Such thi.""^? are wifely ordered^ that every 

 department in the univiVl'e may be properly filled by thofe 

 who have talents exadliy fuited* to the tafl: alfigned them 

 by heaven. 



Let not the m;ir/c« however dcfpife the arcZ»ife5f,becaufe no 

 part of the building could be reared without his own aid ; 

 neither let the architect think lightly of the pioneer who 

 raifes the ftones from the quarry. It is by their joint labours, 

 alone, that the fabric can be reared^ Let each then proceed 

 in his refpeclive ftation, to dlfcharge thofe duties that faD 

 to his fliare, without attempting to depreciate the other. 



Had Culicn however poirelled the talents for arrange,- 

 hient alone, fmall v.Tuld have been his title to that high de- 

 gree of applaufe he has attahied. Without a knowledge of 

 JaBs, a talent for arrangement produces nothings but ciiime- 

 ras; without materials to work upon, the ilruclures \'/hich 

 #1 ove2--heated imagination may rear up, are merely '' th? 

 bafelefs fabric of a vilion." No man was more fenfible of 

 the juflnefs of this remark, than Dodlor Gullen; and few 

 were at greater pains to avoid it. His whole life indeed 

 \vas employed, almofl without interruption, in colJefting 

 fadls. ^Vhether he was reading, or walking, or converflng^ 

 thefe were continually falling into his way. With the keen 

 perception of an eagle, he marked them at the firft glance ; 

 and, without Hopping at the , time to examine them, they 

 were flored up in his memory, to be drav/n foi-th as occafiojt 

 required, to be coiiiVonted with other fadls that had been 

 obtained after the fame manner, and to have their truth af- 

 certained, or their falfity proved, by tlie evidence v/hich 

 lliould appear v/hcn carefully examined at the impartial bar 

 of juflice. Without a memory retentive in a Cngular degree, 

 this could not have been done; but fo very extraordinary 

 was Dodor Cullen's memory, that till towards die very de-- 

 cline of life, there was farccly a fact that had ever occurred 

 to him, which he cuid not readily rectiHci!^, v.'ith all iis 



