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members he was intimately known and justly appreciated. 

 Foremost among the qualities of his heart, was a warmth of 

 generous emotion, which evinced itself in an enthusiastic admi- 

 ration of virtue ; in an indignant disdain and unqualified repro- 

 bation of vice, oppression, or meanness ; and in the prompt and 

 unrestrained exercise of the social affections. In temper, he was 

 frank, confiding, and capable of strong and lasting attachments; 

 quick, it must be acknowledged, in his resentments; butremark- 

 ably placable, and anxious, whenever he thought he had in- 

 flicted a wound, to heal it by redoubled kindness. No man 

 could be more free from all stain of selfishness ; more moderate 

 in his desire of worldly success; or more under the influence of 

 habitual contentment. This was in a great measure the result 

 of his having early weighed the comparative value of the different 

 objects of life, and of his steady and consistent pursuit of know- 

 ledge and virtue, as the primary ends of an intelligent being. 



In very advanced age, though his body was enfeebled, 

 his mind retained much of that wholesome elasticity and 

 vigour, which always belonged to it. He was still enabled, 

 by the almost perfect preservation of his sight, to spend a 

 great portion of every day in reading; but, at this period, he 

 derived greater pleasure from works of literature, than from those 

 of science, and especially from his favourite study of history. 

 During the winter immediately preceding his death, beside 

 several standard historical works, he read with avidity one 

 which had been recently published*; and entered into a critical 

 examination of its merits, with a strength of memory and judg- 

 ment, that would not have discredited the meridian of his facul- 

 ties. In his moral character, no change was observable, except 

 that a too great quickness of feeling, of which he had himself 

 been fully conscious, was softened into a serene and complacent 

 temper of mind, varied only by the occasional glow of those be- 

 nevolent feelings, which continued to exist in him, with unabated 

 ardour, almost to his latest hour. He still continued to receive 

 great pleasure from the society of the young; and to them he 



*Dr. Stanier Clark's Life of .lames the Second, 

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