42 Lord Brougham’s Address on the Inauguration of a 
some use and much gratification in contemplating by what steps 
he ascended. Tracing his course of action may help others t 
in the lower eminences lying within their reach, while admi 
ration excited and curiosity satisfied are frames of mind both 
wholesome and pleasing. Nothing new, it is true, can be give 
in narrative, hardly anything in reflection, less still perhaps in 
comment or illustration; but it is well to assemble in one view 
ing his path. The remark is common and is obvious, that the : 
evidence ‘that proves it strictly true. By a rare felicity 
