ijgl, LITERARY IirrELLlGEliCER. ^<f 



the wants of others, and recollefting the difficultkd 

 that he himfelf had to ftruggle with in his younger 

 <lays, he was at ail times fingularly attentive to their 

 pecuniary concei-ns. From his general acqiiaintance 

 among the ftudent?, and the friendly habits lie Was on 

 with many of thern, he found nodilRcvdty in difcover- 

 ing thofe among them \7ho were rather in hampered 

 circumftances, without being obliged to hurt their de- 

 licacy in any degree. To luch perfons, when their 

 habits of ftudy admitted of it, he was peculiarly at- 

 tentive. Thsy were more frequently invited to his 

 houfe than others ; they were treated with more than 

 ufual kindnefs and familiarity ; they were conduced 

 to his library, and encouraged, by the mod delicate 

 addrefs, to borrow from it freely whatever books he 

 thought they had occafion for : and as perfons in thefe 

 circumftances were ufually more fliy in this refye^i than 

 otiiers, books were fonietimes preiTed upon l^em as a 

 fort of conttraint, by the Doctor infilling to have their 

 opinion of fuch or fuch paflagcs they had not read, and 

 defiling them to carry the book home for that purpofe. 

 He in Ihort behaved to them rather as if he courted 

 their company, and ftood in need of their acquaintance, 

 than they of his. He thus ralfed them in the opinion 

 of their acquaintance to a much higher degree of efti- 

 mation than they could otherwife have obtained, v.hich, 

 to people whofe minds were dcprelTed by penury, and 

 whofefenfe of honour was Iharpenedby the confcicuf- 

 nefs of an inferiority of a certain kintl, was fingularly 

 engaging. Thus were they infpired v/ith a fccret fenfe. 

 of dignity, which elevated their minds, and excited 

 au uncommon ardour of purfuit, inftead of that melan- 

 choly inaftivity which is fo natural in fuch circum- 

 fences, and which too often leads to defpair. Nor was 

 he Icfs delicate in the mamier of fupplying their wants, 

 than attentive to difcovcr tliem. He often found out 

 fome polite cxcufc for refufing to tike payment for a 

 ffjl courfe, and never was at a lofs for one to an after 



