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for personal fame; and to accommodate his conduct, not so 
much to the opinion of men, as.to that higher standard, which 
existed in his own breast. There-were, however, occasions when 
his. powers were more peculiarly called forth ; and, upon some 
of these appearances from the Bench, there are many of us 
who can remember the high praise that was bestowed by the 
late Lord President Brairn,—a man whose praise was fame, 
and who was of too proud an integrity to bestow it where he did 
not feel it was deserved. 
From the period of his. elevation to the: Bench, Lord Woop- 
HousELEE devoted his time exclusively, (while the Courts were 
sitting,) to the business that arose; but, during the vacations, 
he was always happy to return to his private studies. The so- 
litude of the country, (to which he then always retired,) invited 
him to labour; and as he was now free from his academical 
engagements, and from that continued attention which the im- 
provement of his lectures occasioned, he had time to return to 
the consideration of some of the literary projects which he had 
formed in his earlier days, and which he hoped he might now 
be able to resume. One of these, I find, was the literary and 
political Life of Bucnanan ; a subject which was interesting to 
him from many associations, and in which he proposed to do. 
ample justice to his genius as a poet, and his merits as a histo- 
rian, but to examine, with firmness and accuracy, his conduct: 
as a man, and as a politician. 
Another was to give a faithful translation of Campen’s An=. 
nals of Elizabeth, iliustrated with notes, and comparing it with. 
the best accounts of her time that have since been published. 
The subject had been suggested by Dr Campzett in the Bio- 
graphia Britannica, and in the view which Lord Woopnouse- 
LEE took of it, it promised him the opportunity of exhibiting a 
fuller and more faithful picture of that interesting period in. 
English. 
