LIFE OF 



to his tutor. Mr Catton, with tears in his eyes, and told him 

 that he could not go into the Hall to be examined. Mr 

 Catton, however, thought his success here of so much im- 

 portance, that he exhorted him, with all possible earnest- 

 ness, to hold out the six days of the examination. Strong 

 medicines were given him to enable him to support it, and 

 he was pronounced the first man of his year. But life 

 was the price which he was to pay for such honours as this, 

 and Henry is not the first young man to whom such 

 honours have proved fatal. He said to his most inti- 

 mate friend, almost the last time he saw him, that were 

 he to paint a picture of Fame, crowning a distinguished 

 undergraduate, after the Senate house examination, he 

 would represent her as concealing a Death's head under 

 a mask of beauty. 



When this was over he went to London. London 

 was a new scene of excitement, and what his mind re- 

 quired was tranquillity and rest. Before he left College, 

 he had become anxious concerning his expenses, fearing 

 that they exceeded his means. Mr Catton perceived 

 this, and twice called him to his rooms, to assure himof^ 

 every nece?sary support, and every encouragement, and 

 to give him every hope. This kindness relieved his 

 spirits of a heavy weight, and on his return he relaxed a 

 little from his studies, but it was only a little. I found 

 among his papers the day thus planned out: — " Rise at 

 half-past five. Devotions and walk till seven. Chapel 

 and breakfast till eight. Study and lectures till one. 

 Four and a half clear reading. Walk, &c. and dinner, 

 and Woollaston, and chapel to six. Six to nine, read- 

 ing — three hours. Nine to ten, devotions. Bed at 

 ten." 



Among his latest writings are these resolutions : — 



" I will never be in bed after six. 



I will not drink tea out above once a week, excepting on 



Sundays, unless there appear some good reason for so 



doing. 

 I will never pass a day without reading some portion of 



the Scriptures. 



