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sweet temper and disposition, his benevolent virtues, the richness 

 of his conversation, and the delight which his society afforded. 

 He was, as jou well know, a man universally respected, — who 

 never lost a friend, and never had an enemy ; whom once to know 

 was always to love and esteem. 



In domestic life, he was all that could be wished ; and, I may 

 add, all that could be imagined in amiable affections. Wisdom and 

 love were delightfully blended in his whole deportment. 



Brilliant as is the reputation of the scholar and the author, we 

 lose sight of it in the superior excellence of the man. He was, 

 indeed, a true man. His sensibilities were tender, his whole organ- 

 ization delicate and susceptible, yet always sound and healthful, 

 with nothing of a morbid tendency to unfit him for the active du- 

 ties of life. Mild and gentle, he yet felt keenly and quickly ; and 

 with all his patient forbearance, he was not wanting in spirit and 

 energy to assert his rights. He had a true enthusiasm, without 

 any extravagance. His ardent love of freedom and justice, and 

 his abhorrence of tyranny in all its forms, never partook of fanat- 

 icism. With much reserve in expressing his religious feelings, he 

 was profoundly conscientious, and lived in the fear and the love 

 of God. 



Truly of him we may say, with Nature's great poet, — 



" His life was gentle, and the elements 

 So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, 

 And say to all the world, This was a man." 



Christianity, too, might rise up and set her seal of greatness 

 upon him. The fundamental law of Christian greatness he nobly 

 fulfilled. He was, in the highest sense, " the servant of all," — a 

 true philanthropist, the benefactor of his race. His profoundest 



