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4. ABILITIES, Few Men of.—

Men of
high learning and abilities are few in every
country: and by taking in [the judiciary] those who are not so, the able part of the body
have their hands tied by the unable.—
To Archibald Stuart. Washington ed. iii, 315. Ford ed., v, 410.
(Pa., 1791)

See Aristocracy, Talents.