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not dependent on his earnings for support, he chose to 

 eat his own bread; and when a friend proposed to make 

 him an honorary member of one of our benevolent soci- 

 eties, he thought it more honorable to be a member 

 — as he hoped soon to become — by his personal contri- 

 bution. 



7. His choice of worthy objects led him to untiring 

 industry in prosecuting them. There is nothing great 

 without labor. Those who suppose, if any such there 

 are, that Professor Norton attained his eminence adven- 

 titiously, know not his years of study nor his intense 

 application; his nights, as well as days, devoted to 

 study ; and, in connection with his regular studies, the 

 multitude of letters that he wrote, the daily journal 

 which for twelve or fourteen years he kept, and the 

 stated contributions to periodicals that he made ; and 

 after his entrance on his profession, together with all 

 these, his courses of lectures, his private instructions, 

 his public addresses, and his printed works. He had his 

 recreations ; he enjoyed them. A favorite one we knew ; 

 but he adopted and continued it, merely as a recreation, 

 certainly, in his latter years, and had he indulged him- 

 self in it more freely, might not his invaluable life have 

 been prolonged ? In comparison of his industry with our 

 own, may not the greater part of us find ourselves re- 

 proved? How much was accomplished by him in the 

 few fleeting years allotted him! He seems, indeed, to 



