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existence, in calmly weighing and analyzing those 
pure and lofty sentiments, of which his long life 
had presented so bright and steady a manifes- 
tation. 
Mr. Ewart’s mind was characterized by the 
healthful and well-adjusted proportion of its vari- 
ous faculties, by strength and symmetry, by gene- 
ral soundness, rectitude and comprehensiveness, 
rather than by the salient and exclusive prepon- 
derance of any one separate endowment. He 
possessed most remarkably, the faculty of sus- 
tained patient thought; and it was by laborious, 
long continued efforts of reflection, rather than 
by the suggestive inspiration of genius, that he 
slowly wrought out his mechanical inventions, 
and framed his deliberate opinions in exact sci- 
ence, and in the higher Philosophy. His pro- 
cesses of acquiring knowledge, as well as his 
general habits of thought and apprehension were 
slow and laboured ; but the treasures thus assem- 
bled, were strictly methodized and tenaciously 
retained; and, what is less common, they were at 
all times readily producible, and were gracefully 
imparted with inborn gentle courtesy and total 
forgetfulness of self. 
The marked features of Mr. Ewart’s moral 
