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classes would join, and of which he always 

 took the direction. 



I have been thus prolix in a tribute 

 of respect to one of my early friends, as 

 I consider his merits and qualifications 

 would have done honour to a higher 

 sphere than that in which his lot was 

 cast. He still lives in the author's 

 friendship and esteem, and may be 

 seen in London, after a long, toilsome, 

 but to him not weary pilgrimage, wend- 

 ing his way with a slow, somewhat altered, 

 but not yet crippled gait, towards the 

 British Museum ; or seated in the splendid 

 library of that magnificent establishment; 

 as upright in his stature as in his mind, 

 waiting with the same undaunted spirit 

 and, it is to be hoped, with that humble 

 reliance on the merits and mediation of 

 One who took our nature upon him, and 

 died for us all that fiat that must shortly 

 remove him " to another and a better 

 world." 



