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and feeling, for his conversational powers and playful wit; 

 and he was beloved by them for his generous, amiable dis- 

 position, his active and disinterested kindness, and steady 

 affection. And in this manner his high-toned character acquired 

 a moral influence over his contemporaries and juniors, in a degree 

 remarkable in one so early removed. 



To this brief history, little more is to be added ; for though 

 it is impossible not to indulge in speculations as to all that 

 M? Gregory might have done in the cause of science and for his 

 own reputation, had his life been prolonged, yet such speculations 

 are necessarily too vague to find a place here ; and even were it 

 not so, it would perhaps be unwise to enter on a subject so full 

 of sources of unavailing regret. 



