These things are understood and duly appreciated.

The gentleman was young once, even as he says; and I, his equal in years, was then, in authorship, as young--though, it were to be hoped, not quite so immature.

But, as circumstances alter cases, so time and chance alter circumstances.

Under no circumstances, however, can the artifices of quackery be thought excusable in him who claims to be the very greatest of modern grammarians.

The niche that in the temple of learning belongs to any individual, can be no other than that which his own labours have purchased: here, his _own merit_ alone must be his pedestal.