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Infinitely worse, however, than any evil which can arise from this or any other source, is that which the opinions and ideas of a frivolous woman must entail upon those unhappy beings of whom she superintends the education. "Turpe est difficiles habere nugas Et stultus labor est ineptiarum," is a text on which, even in this great and free country, many comments may be found.

The erudition and the industry displayed in the gathering together of these vast masses of information, and in their verification by experiment, are indeed amazing; and, in turning over his pages, it is impossible to stifle regret that Cardan's confused method and incoherent system should have rendered his work comparatively useless for the spread of true knowledge, and qualified it only for a place among the labores ineptiarum.

It is a melancholy thing, which none but those educated at a college can understand, to see the debilitated frames of the aspirants for academical honours; to mark the prime the verdure the glory the life of life wasted irrevocably away in a labor ineptiarum, which brings no harvest either to others or themselves.

It is a melancholy thing, which none but those educated at a college can understand, to see the debilitated frames of the aspirants for academical honours; to mark the prime the verdure the glory the life of life wasted irrevocably away in a labor ineptiarum, which brings no harvest either to others or themselves.