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gent between his public aud his private manners, — 

 that he was an engaging example of all he taught, — 

 and that no reproacli which, in his multifarious em- 

 ployment, he was compelled to utter against all the 

 forms of injustice, public and private, social and do- 

 mestic, — against all violations of law, from crime 

 down to those irregularities at which, from general 

 infirmity, there is a general connivance, — in no in- 

 stance, did the sting of his reproach wound his own 

 bosom. Yet it was in his life only, and not in his pre- 

 tensions, that you discerned this his fortunate superi- 

 ority to others. In his private walk she was the most 

 unpretending of men. He bore constantly about him 

 those characteristics of true greatness, simplicity, and 

 modesty. Shall 1 add, that the memory of all his 

 acquaintance may be challenged to repeat from his 

 most unrestrained conversation, one word or allusion, 

 that might not have fallen with propriety upon the 

 ear of the most fastidious delicacy. 



His manners in society, w^ere unusually attractive 

 to those wdio were so fortunate as to possess his es- 

 teem ; and they Avere the reverse to none, except 

 those who had given him cause to withliold it. Their 

 great charm was sincerity, and though unassumiug 

 and retired; they never failed to show the impress of 

 that refinement in v/hich he had passed his life. 



The kindness of his nature appcai^'d in the inter- 

 course that he maintained with his fellow citizens, 

 notwithstanding the claims of his station. He pro- 

 bably entertained Mr. iJurke's opinion, that us it is 



