OPINIONS,

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READING.

As to my reading, I believe I may aver, without hyperbole, it has been tolerably extensive in the historical; so that few nations exist, or have existed, with whose records I am not in some degree acquainted, from Herodotus down to Gibbon. Of the classics, I know about as much as most school-boys after a discipline of thirteen years; of the law of the land, as much as enables me to keep "within the statute"-to use the poacher's vocabulary. I did study the Spirit of Laws,' and the Law of Nations;' but when I saw the latter violated every month, I gave up my attempts at so useless an accomplishment ;of geography, I have seen more land on maps than I should wish to traverse on foot ;-of mathematics, enough to give me the head-ache

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