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desumunt eas nectere : quas sine sententia sectare,, 

 tarn est ridiculum quam queerere habltum gestum- 



que sine corpore. Ubi vero, atroci- 



tate, invidia, miseratione pognandum est ; quis 

 ferat verbis contrapositis et consimilibus, et pari- 

 ter cadentibiis, irascentend, flentem, rogantem ?" 



If my national partialities are neither flattered 

 nor increased by this rapid review, they certainly 

 have great scope lor exultation, when T turn my 

 G^es to my countryman Thomas Addis Emmet, 

 who now ranks among the first advocates of the 

 American Bar, and if in Ireland, would distance 

 all competition. I have heard him, and heard 

 him with perfect astonishment. He has an all- 

 grasping mind, wliich can penetrate the most ab- 

 struse, irradiate the most obscure, and compre- 

 hend the most intricate and perplexed subjects. 

 For compass of thought, for solidity of reasoning, 

 for acuteness of investigation, for felicity of illus- 

 tration, for energy of expression — he is without a 

 rival. In private life, he is one of the most amia- 

 ble and unobtrusive of men — -" In wit a man — sim- 

 plicity a child." 



There is a great excitement in this country 

 against the British Reviews for their strictures on 

 the state of American learning, and yet these vitu- 

 perative Reviews are to be found in every reading 

 house ill this country. Jeffery is looked up to 



