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though fanciful enough in many 

 cases, he gave strong proof of that 

 keen penetration for which he was 

 afterwards so eminent. 



The most cordial friendship had 

 subsisted between Mr. Paley and 

 Mr, Law from the period of their 

 first acquaintance, whilst under- 

 graduates in 1762; and they now 

 passed much of their leisure in each 

 other'scompany,raakingexcursion3 

 during the long vacation, into dif- 

 ferent parts of the kingdom, and 

 travelling usually, in a single-horse 

 chaise. They are said to have 

 once passed the evening at a coun- 

 try inn, with an ingenious and witty 

 stranger, whom they afterwards 

 discovered to be the celebrated 

 John Wilkes. Mr. Paley, who 

 always told a good story with point 

 and humour, even at his own ex- 

 pense, used often amusingly to de- 

 tail the various adventures which 

 they met with, or tlie little disas- 

 ters which occasionally befel them 

 in their progress; so that these 

 tours not only excited a present 

 interest, but became a permanent 

 source of social entertainment. 

 Whilst he treated others at times 

 with playfulness, he invariably 

 looked up to Mr. Law; and, re- 

 specting the affairs of the universi- 

 ty, as well as of their own college, 

 thej' usually went hand in hand. 

 Their portraits were taken by Van- 

 dermyn, a Cambridge artist, about 

 1769, both very striking and cha- 

 racteristic likenesses ; Mr. Paley in 

 a full clerical dress, Mr. Law in a 

 master-of-arts gown. 



This intimacy natjrally intro- 

 duced Mr. Paley to his friend's fa- 

 ther, Dr. Edmund Law, a divine 

 no less distinguished by great intel- 

 lectual attainments, than by un- 



wearied exertions in the investiga- 

 tion of moral and religious truth, 

 and who, by a patronage which 

 does honour to the duke of 

 Grafton's administration, was pro- 

 moled to the see of Carlisle, in Ja- 

 nuary, 1769. After his elevation, 

 however, he continued to reside 

 chiefly at Cambridge, as master of 

 Peterhouse, but making an annual 

 visit to his diocese, and episcopal 

 seat at Rose Castle, where Mr. Pa- 

 ley usually accompanied him as his 

 chaplain. 



Mr. Edward Law, his lordship's 

 third son, at this time a student of 

 Peterhouse, is said to have been in 

 no small degree indebted to his in- 

 tercourse with Mr. Paley, in the 

 cultivation of those talents, which 

 have since raised him to one of the 

 first judicial situations. Their fu- 

 ture celebrity, indeed, was once 

 predicted by a very intelligent 

 gentleman, who met with them, 

 whilst they were together on a visit 

 in Buckinghamshire, at the house 

 of a common friend. 



No studious man perhaps ever 

 entered more into the pleasures of 

 society than Mr. Paley, or pre- 

 sented so rare an assemblage of 

 attractive qualities. His naivete, 

 his good humour, his fund of 

 knowledge, and great powers of 

 conversation, made him at once the 

 life of the combination-room at his 

 own college, and the delight of all 

 who elsewhere associated with him 

 in his unbending hours. He was 

 at all times easy of access, and 

 ready to enjoy the company of the 

 rational and intelligent, as a relief 

 from his professional engagements 

 and his private studies. Amongst 

 his friends no man was more highly 

 esteemed ; for, great as were his 

 talents and attainments, even these 



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