CHAPTER XII 



SHORT SKETCHES OF SOME FAMOUS ECCLESIASTICS 

 WHO WERE WALTON'S FRIENDS 



" Love and esteem are the first principles of friendship, 

 which always is imperfect where either of these two is 

 wanting." 20, 385, The Spectator. 



"In companions 

 That do converse and waste the time together, 

 Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love, 

 There must be needs a like proportion 

 Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirits." 



Merchant of Venice. 



"life is never finished in its purpose and idea; and its 

 work is at best but a fragment." — James Martineau. 



In his youth and early manhood Walton appears to 

 have had the power to make "troops of friends," 

 and he possessed the still greater power of keep- 

 ing them. We have seen in a former chapter 

 he was very particular whom he would reckon 

 as his friends ; his will shows he had many who 

 survived him, though he outlived nearly all of 



the most famous of them. 

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