;2 EULOGY ON GENERAL WASHINGTON.. 



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Pursuits of this nature always commanded his 



attention, and to fome of them he was peculiarly at 



tached. They were frequently the topic of his converfa- 

 tion, and the fubjed of his correfpondence, with ingen- 

 ious and public fpirited men, in different parts of the 



world. 



With a mind well-fitted to acquire juft concep- 

 tions on any fubjed, to which his attention was di^ 

 feded, he would, I am perfuaded, have been diftin- 

 uifhed in the abftrufer branches of fclence, if the courfe 

 of life, which he had chofea, or to which he was im 

 pelled, had not been incompatible with the purfuit. In 

 patient invelb'gation, unwearied aifiduity, and fyftema- 



tic arrangement, he was excelled by none. The uni- 

 form fuccefs, which attended his operations in military 



and political life, evinces great folidity of judgments 



and he, who could produce fuch corred and profper- 

 ous rcfults, in the great a^irs of a nation, fo liable ta 

 "be defeated or impeded, by the ever varying humours, 

 and prejudices of men, with like application, might 

 have been equally diftinguifhed ia the fteady regions of 



fciencc, whofe permanent relations and conneded truths* 

 never fail todifclofe themfelves to. induilrious refearch and 

 attentive contemplation. 



But Ihough a man of contemplative habits, he war. 

 i^ill more fitted for adion.. It became necef^ry for the 

 tcpofe and happinefs of his country, that he fhould leave 

 the asylum cf Jus declining years. Obedient to that voice^ 

 Tivhich he could never hear but with veneration and hue^ 



tee^ exchanges a retreat which ha had chofeA with the 



