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7Concersatioaai Powerss---Fluency in con- versation must not be ascribed as a test of talent. Men of genius and wisdom have of- ten been found deficient in its graccs.-- Adam Smith ever retained in company the embar- rassed manners of a student. N either Buffon nor Rousseau carried their eloquence into society. The silence of the poet Chancer was held more desirable than his speech. The conversation of Goldsmith did not evince the grace and tenderness that characterized his compositions. Thompson was diadent and often unlntersting. Dante was taciturn, and all the brllliancy of Tasso WAS in his pen.- Descrates seemed formed for solitude. Cow ley was quaint observer; his conversation was low and dull, and his humor reseryed.- Hogarih and Smith were absent-minded, and

 the studious Thomas Parker, said that he was fit for no communion, save with the dead.-- Our own Hamilton, Franklin, and host of others, were deficient in that fluency which often fascinates promiscuous circle.