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4447. LANGUAGE (Latin), A luxury.
—To read the Latin and Greek authors in
their original, is a sublime luxury; and I deem
luxury in science to be at least as justifiable
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other arts.—
To Joseph Priestley. Washington ed. iv, 316. Ford ed., vii, 414.
(Pa., 1800)
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