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ness of manner which is so necessary in 

 the field, combined with that dignity of 

 sentiment and strong natural eloquence so 

 essential in the pulpit. 



In addition to this, though his tastes 

 were decidedly of a nature not in accor- 

 dance with the spirit of the present 

 day, he was a gentleman of sound eru- 

 dition, of kind feelings, and urbane 

 manners, and possessed a fund of useful and 

 amusing knowledge, so that his conver- 

 sation was not always confined to the 

 animating subject of field-sports. In our 

 frequent and, to me, very pleasing inter- 

 course, he had always some fresh anecdote 

 to relate ; and occasionally amused me 

 with a happy solution of an enigma a 

 kind of ingenious trifling then much in 

 fashion. 



On one occasion, I remember, he asked 

 me if I knew what two words in the 

 English language (and there were but 



