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readily falls in with that which is of most general 

 intelligence in the country where he resides, or 

 in the societies which he may occasionally 

 mingle with. The mere phrase, the form of 

 the rule, is of no consequence, provided the 

 rule itself, in the uniformity of its terms, be 

 clearly denned by the one, so as to be perfectly 

 comprehended by the other. One "part of 

 speech" only do I presume to enter my most 

 decided protest against. I can not admit the 

 tutor to take his language, any more than his 

 precepts, from the general rude associates of 

 the kennel. I am endeavouring to breed up 

 the animal before him as the companion of a 

 gentleman; and I must not have his ears 

 assailed, and his attention confounded, by a tor- 

 rent of language which is utterly incompatible 

 with that character. I have, therefore, to remind 

 the tutor that he do not permit his tongue to run 

 riot through all the eloquence, however power- 

 ful, of Ernulphus*. All that he can possibly 



confusion arising from the use of both. I have preferred 

 the former, as furnishing, in a variation of the sound of the 

 two words, the more or less of meaning, which the perfect 

 command necessary on this head may call for. 



* The unlearned reader, if he think it worth while, which 

 I can assure him it is not, may consult the record of this 

 language, as handed down to us by the very learned historian 

 of the Shaiidv familv. 



