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ends in view, and sometimes of a more social character. He was 

 industrious in botli. In the latter kind of exercises he either obeyed 

 the call of associations, political or literary, with which he was more 

 or less closely connected, or entered from his own praiseworthy im- 

 pulses, upon an arena where good taste and scholarship were dis- 

 played in speech and writing, congenial to his own feeling, and the 

 pleased instruction of his friends. These employments were varied 

 by a relaxation of literary leisure in the companionship of books, 

 which supplied his stores of knowledge, and a moderate and cheerful 

 indulgence in the enjoyments of domestic and social intercourse, in 

 which he took a lively interest, and was always well received. He 

 was not only never idle, but never without what may be regarded as 

 sufficient occupation of the mind. He conversed freely and sensibly, 

 always with entire delicacy of thought and speech, and with entire 

 freedom from everything like personal detraction. Had his bodily 

 exercises been as carefully attended to, his life would probably have 

 been prolonged. It was perceived too late that he had not submitted 

 to enough of this important discipline to give vigor to his frame, 

 or to resist the encroachments of disease. Sedentary habits were 

 agreeable to him. He preferred the repose of study to the activity 

 of exercise. He did not even afford himself habitually the ordinary 

 relief of an occasional walk, which in itself would have been an irk- 

 some effort to him. Always desirous of occupation, and seeking to 

 be in the way of it, he turned to his library even at unseasonable 

 moments. This would occur at a late period of the evening which 

 had been passed for hours in the society of his friends. These 

 habits will serve to explain the constancy of the engagements of his 

 pen. He appears never to have tired of his desk. AVhen not using 

 it at the invitation of others, he gave it employment as a kind of 

 duty or agreeable exercise for himself. This was, perhaps, the rather 

 indulged from the fact, that among his accomplishments was that of 

 writing an excellent hand. 



With such tastes as these, which appear to have been inherent in 

 his nature, and were fully developed in the progress of years, it was 

 a happy circumstance that he had passed that portion of boy- 

 hood, which receives the elements of education, in a country where 

 classical learning is especially cultivated. He had been at an 

 early period carefully imbued with it. A school, at Hemel-Hemp- 

 stead, twenty-three miles from London, was kept by Dr. Hamilton, 

 a highly respectable and well-known teacher, who received and 

 educated a very limited number of young gentlemen at a time. 



