THE LATE PETER EWART, ESQ. 135 
character, his warmth and steadiness in friend- 
ship, his generous and delicate sense of honour, 
the singular purity and guilelessness of his nature, 
must be fresh in the memory of many members 
of this society. He had derived from nature that 
warm susceptibility of temper, out of which often 
issue the noblest and most generous impulses, 
and which, duly chastened and vigilantly con- 
trolled, is the parent of the loftiest virtue. In 
him this warmth of feeling never manifested itself, 
except in a heightened colour and slight impati- 
ence of manner, called forth by what he deemed 
unsound or irrelevant in argument, false or exag- 
gerated in sentiment or expression. Even this 
quickness of manner was but momentary in its 
duration, being at once softened away and sub- 
dued by the benevolent courtesy and mild for- 
bearance of his nature. 
In conclusion, it may perhaps be permitted to 
one, who from earliest childhood was honoured 
by his friendly regard, and who in after profes- 
sional life stood near to him, in a season of deep 
sorrow, to bear testimony to the resigned for- 
titude and serene composure which could be 
sustained only by the wisest discipline of the 
affections, and the firmest religious hopes and 
convictions. 
