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vii tion, and conscientious assiduity in practice, are crowned with all the distinctions which generous ambition aspires to reach.

The important services rendered to the general literature and science of the country by some of the busiest members of this busy profession, are dwelt upon in these pages with just pride, though by no means in such detail as the subject might claim; nor perhaps could any other walk of exertion furnish a larger proportion of names eminent for intellectual zeal and power, which have also deserved to be handed down for moral dignity of character, piety to God, and benevolence to man.