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manifested themselves by his timid and awkward conduct, 

 by the tasteless disharmony in his dress, the furniture of his 

 apartments, by loud laughter, low jests and antic gestures, 

 by his predilection for glaring colours, coarse viands, and 

 sweet wmes, as well as by the pleasure he took in frequently 

 mixing with low companies, in joining in their political dis- 

 putes, and laughing aloud at their coarse witticisms. But 

 these defects were amply over-balanced by a most excellent 

 heart and uncommon mental perfections. A real virgin 

 modesty and bashfulness, and the most complete chastity 

 and sobriety, an honest and frank manner of thinking, and 

 a decided aversion from all kinds of double dealing and false- 

 hood ; a manifest antipathy against all injustice; a prompt 

 and spontaneous reparation of every Injury he thought to 

 have committed ; the most anxious desire to avoid every 

 cause of dissension and dispute ; an inexhaustible patience 

 and forbearance ; a total freedom from moroseness and ill- 

 humour; a sincere promptitude to instruct those who 

 sought his society from good motives ; the most active com- 

 passion, whenever he beheld wretchedness — all these qua- 

 lities composed in him a harmonious whole. A glowing 

 devotion, which frequently rose to a kind of pious rapture, 

 a lively sense of his dependence on God, and of the imper- 

 fection of our knowledge of the Supreme Being, and un- 

 affected humility and veneration towards it, animated him 

 from his early youth to his grave, notwithstanding the 

 change which, in the latter part of his life, took place in 

 some of his religious notions, and afforded him an uninter- 

 rupted serenity of mind, frequently sufluslng his counte- 

 nance with a glow of heavenly beauty. He felt the most 

 profound contempt for works that were levelled against the 

 sacred cause of religion, v/hilst works that ably defended it 

 were read by him with rapture. He was a real cosmopolite, 

 and animated with universal love ; but he showed as little 

 individual attachment to any one as predilection for any 

 spot; not even his native country excepted; nor did he 

 betray any mark of the Swiss national character. He took, 

 however, a lively interest in the fate of those whom he 

 esteemed. When professor Sulzer was dangerously ill,Lani- 

 hcit wept the only tear which he ever was seen to shed. He 

 delighted in assisting young men of talents, and in contri- 

 buting to their improvement. 



UriiMassed by vanity and flattery, he judged with impar- 

 tiality both of himself and others. But the habitude of 

 speaking as decidedly and IVeely of his own merits and de- 

 fects as of those of others, made him frequently appear a 



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