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those contrasted qualities which, in his happy example, 

 found themselves in harmony — the scientific accuracy 

 which neither clogged his excursive imagination, nor 

 stiffened into academic pedantry ; the fantastic playful- 

 ness under which, like a deep tide beneath a sunny ripple, 

 still flowed on his strong affection and his steadfast pur- 

 pose ; the large amount of work which he contrived to do 

 with a look of leisure, and almost under the pretext of 

 recreation ; the freshness of feeling, and the width of 

 innocent enjoyment, which co-existed with such tender- 

 ness of conscience and such faith unfeigned. And if 

 there are some readers exempted from the constraints of 

 a calling to whom his career, so useful and honourable, 

 says, " Go and do likewise ; " others may find consolation 

 in those early disappointments which Fatherly Goodness 

 transformed into eventual blessings, and amidst the clouds 

 of their morning may still hope and pray for a bright, 

 afternoon and a peaceful evening. 



