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4462. LANGUAGES, Perfect Knowledge of.—[continued].
I am of opinion that
there never was an instance of a man's writing
or speaking his native tongue with elegance,
who passed from fifteen to twenty years of age
out of the country where it was spoken.—
To J. Bannister. Washington ed. i, 468.
(P.
1785)
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