50 Life and Times of " The DrzcidT 



Christian school ? ' he indignantly asked at 

 the end of one of his addresses, in which he 

 had spoken of an extensive display of bad 

 feeling among the boys, and then added, ' I 

 cannot remain here if all is to be carried on 

 by constraint and force ; if I am to be here 

 as a gaoler I will resign my office at once.' 

 Few scenes can be recorded more charac- 

 teristic of him than when on one of these 

 occasions he had been obliged to send away 

 several boys, and when in the midst of the 

 general discontent which this excited he 

 stood in his place before the assembled 

 school and said, ' It is not necessary that 

 this should be a school of four hundred, or 

 three hundred, or even one hundred boys ; 

 but it is necessary that it should be a school 

 of Christian gentlemen.' " 



Perhaps there never came under his 

 fatherly supervision a boy better calculated 

 to derive a lasting advantage from his pre- 

 cepts and example than the hero of this 

 biography. In addition to a romantic and 

 poetical imagination, to a fervid love of his 

 native country and of beautiful scenery, and 

 to a passionate attachment, to antiquity, 



