up a specimen for ti?cation of the curious.

    * quot;Live ever se booke; tle t, and tify unto t ter ary of eloquence, tyest ?ot and arte, tellectual virtues, tongue of Suada in ts of Practise in esse, and t.quot;-ion.

    quot;For my part,quot; I continued, quot;I consider tability of language a ion of Providence for t of t large, and of auticular. to reason from analogy, ribes of vegetables springing up, ?ouris time, and to dust, to make  ty of nature ead of a blessing. tation, and its surface become a tangled  productions. Language gradually varies, and  fade aings of autted time; otive poock tely beerature.

    Formerly traints on tiplication. orks o be transcribed by ion; tten eit, en erased to make remely perised and unpro?table craft, pursued cude of ters. tion of manuscripts ly, and con?ned almost entirely to monasteries. to tances it may, in some measure, be o ed by tellect of antiquity--t tains of t  been broken up, and modern genius dro tions of paper and t an end to all traints. ter, and enabled every mind to pour itself into print, and diffuse itself over tellectual ream of literature o a torrent--augmented into a river-expanded into a sea. A feuries since ?ve or six s constituted a great library; but o libraries, sucually exist, containing t time busy; and tivity, to double and quadruple tality s among t sremble for posterity. I fear tuation of language  be suf?cient. Criticism may do muc increases erature, and resembles one of tary cion spoken of by