Forsooth, as use makes perfectness, so seldom seen is soon forgotten.

The purpose of this book was, in his own words, "to declare the perfectness and eternal beauty of the work of God; and test all works of man by concurrence with, or subjection to that.

Now it is, doubtless, the participle, that gives to these their perfectness; while diversity in the auxiliaries makes their difference of time.

In like manner the Mysteries, says Christie, "were termed [Greek: teletai\], perfections, because they were supposed to induce a perfectness of life.

It is rather odd that Dr. Barnard had once a sharp altercation with Johnson, and avenged himself by a sarcastic copy of verses in which, after professing to learn perfectness from different friends, he says, Johnson shall teach me how to place, In varied light, each borrow'd grace; From him I'll learn to write; Copy his clear familiar style, And by the roughness of his file, Grow, like himself, polite.

If no one rises to the height which other poets have occasionally reached, they are, nevertheless, always free from those defects which sometimes mar the perfectness of far greater productions.