MEMOIRS OF 



portion. The traces of afevere fmall-pox; 

 features, and countenance, which, when 

 they were not animated by focial pleafure, 

 were rather faturnine than fprightly ; a 

 ftoop in the fhoulders, ^nd the then pro- 

 feffional appendage, a large full-bottomed 

 wig, gave, at that early period of life, an 

 appearance of nearly twice the years he 

 bore. Florid health, and the earnest of 

 good humour, a funny fmile, on entering 

 a room, and on first accofting his friends, 

 rendered, in his youth, that exterior agree- 

 able, to which beauty and iymmetry had 

 not been propitious. 



He flammered extremely; but whatever 

 he faid, whether gravely or in jest, was 

 always well worth waiting for, though the 

 inevitable impreffion it made might not 

 always be pleafant to individual felf-love. 

 Confcious of great native elevation above 

 the general ftandard of intellect, he became, 

 early in life, fore upon oppofition, whether 



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