[9] Timæus, 17. Enfield, vi. 3.
[10] Hist. des Saints, 2 c. 4 p. 212, 215.
[11] Ocellus, 90.
[12] That of Athanasius and the Council of Nicæa, anno. 324.
[13] January 16, 1814.
[14] Since the date of this letter, a most important and valuable edition has been published of Coke's First Institute. The editor, Thomas, has analyzed the whole work, and re-composed its matter in the order of Blackstone's Commentaries, not omitting a sentence of Lord Coke's text, nor inserting one not his. In notes, under the text, he has given the modern decisions relating to the same subjects, rendering it thus as methodical, lucid, easy and agreeable to the reader as Blackstone, and more precise and profound. It can now be no longer doubted that this is the very best elementary work for a beginner in the study of the law. It is not, I suppose, to be had in this State, and questionable if in the North, as yet, and it is dear, costing in England four guineas or nineteen dollars, to which add the duty here on imported books, which, on the three volumes 8vo, is something more than three dollars, or one dollar the 8vo volume. This is a tax on learned readers to support printers for the readers of "The Delicate Distress, and The Wild Irish Boy".
[15] The clergy of the United States may probably be estimated at eight thousand. The residue of this society at four hundred; but if the former number be halved, the reasoning will be the same.
[16] See Buttman's Datives, p. 230, every one of which I should consider as under the accident or relation called Ablative, having no signification of approach according to his definition of the Dative.
[17] Address lost.
[18] Address lost.