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 nates superficial knowledge, and its perpetual adjunct, vanity; that it checks in the youthful mind the habit of thinking for itself; that it delivers partial opinions, and thereby misleads the judgment; that it is never conducted with a view to the general interests of literature, but to serve the interested ends of individuals, and the miserable purposes of party.

Ye ken, Sir, a mon mun live

While he can live honourably, naturally, justly, certainly: no longer.

Eevery mon, Sir, lives according to his ain notions of honour an' justice: there is a wee deeference amang the learned wi' respact to the defineetion o' the terms.