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He came into the world with a confidence in his own 

 talents, growing out of an expectation of excellence en- 

 tertained in common by all his friends, which expectation 

 was more than realised in the progress of his future life. 

 The multiplied objects which he pursued were carried to 

 such an extent, that each might have been supposed to 

 have exclusively occupied the full powers of his mind ; 

 knowledge in the abstract, the most enlarged generalisations, 

 and the most minute and intricate details were equally 

 effected by him ; but he had most pleasure in that which 

 appeared to be most difficult of investigation. The 

 example is only to be followed by those of equal per- 

 severance. 



