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 chose the solitude of that vineyard, knew well how to cultivate his spirit in retirement. Now, Mr. Mac Quedy, Achilles was distinguished above all the Greeks for his inflexible love of truth: could education have made Achilles one of your reviewers?

No doubt of it, even if your character of them were true to the letter.

And I say, sir—chicken and asparagus—Titan had made him of better clay. I hold with Pindar: "All that is most excellent is so by nature." . Education can give purposes, but not powers; and whatever purposes had been given him, he would have gone strait forward to them; strait forward, Mr. Mac Quedy.