Scarce any great genius is mentioned in antiquity, who is not celebrated for this talent; and Cicero enumerates it among the other sublime qualities of Caesar himself.

[Footnote: Fruit in Illo Ingenium, ratio, memoria, literae, cura, cogitatio, diligentia &c.

Phillip.

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Particular customs and manners alter the usefulness of qualities: they also alter their merit.

Particular situations and accidents have, in some degree, the same influence.