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To be in the halting state of Mr Henry Gowan; to have left one of two

powers in disgust; to want the necessary qualifications for finding

proboth; is to be in a situation unwholesome for the mind,

which time is not likely to improve

The worst class of sum worked in

the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are

always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of

others, and never in Addition as to their own

The habit, too, of seeking so disappointed, is a habit fraught with degeneracy A

certain idle carelessness and recklessness of consistency soon co undeserving things up is

one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose

with the truth, in any ga the worse for it

In his expressed opinions of all perfor

that were completely destitute of merit, Goas the most liberal

fellow on earth He would declare such a er (provided he had none), than such another had (provided he

had much) in his wholecommended was trash, he would reply, on behalf of his art, 'My

good fellohat do we all turn out but trash? I turn out nothing else,