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many practised an Universit me do in theiri lines Mathemati s astronomy, and speciali What mayae called se nolora, o the doctrine of the oon, and the higher geomere an physim HebreW, San-scrit Greeli, an Latin to the vertes rigoum os prosod and metre Spanish and Italian German, French, and an od language that came in his Way at theselieane morem les thoroughly, and acquire themin the mos teisurely, easy, coo sortis a Way, as Phegrare an browsed perpetuali in the fiet os letters, raster tha made forma meais, o gathere so any ulterior purpose, his ruits his roois, an his nut-heespeciali liked menta nuta-much lessiought them

With ali his, his knowledge of human, and especiali of Biggar human nature, the in and ut os italitu secret ongoings, the entire gossi os the place,

Was like a Woman's moreOver, ver perSonage greator mali, heroi or Comic in Homer-Whose poemahe made it a matter of consciencerio rea Onc everysou years-Plautus, Suetonius, Plutarch, Tacitus, and

Lucian, down through Boccaccio an Don uixote, πhichaeane by hear an sto the livin Spanish, to Ioseph AndreWs, the Spectator, Goldsmith and Swist, Mim Austen, is Edgeworth, and Miss Ferrier, GH and Sir alter-he was a familiar vitii as illi David Crochat the nailer, o the paristi minister, the

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With the practices of this ast worthy, hen carrie oninoderately, and so the spori' salie he had a species sympathn Phelteve this was the true though secret fourceis muc os mysather' knowledge of the minute persona histor os mery one in his region, hich-to his people, knowin his reserve manne an his devotion to his studies, an his o raret meetingiliem o speahin to them, except rom the pulpit, or at a diei os visitation-was a perpetuat wonder, and of Whichae ad greatus in his dealing wit his afficie or errini members.'

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The ver differenc os thei merita temper and complexions rew them together-the one impatient,

i He was curiousi destitutem ali literat ambitioni inow; illi the cactru in the deseit, always plumP, alway taking in thedew os eaven, an carin litile to ive it ut He roteman paper in the Repositor' an Monuor, an acute an clevertraci noli Voluntar controversy, entille GH Anmen DAM Guestio ra, and was the author os a capital bit os litera banter Congratulator Leiter to the Minister os Liberton.who ad come down iam myriather in a amphtet, or his sermon on There remarieth much lan to e posse ed. Itis a mixture Os wis an Arbuthnot. I remember ne os thenowers e cratis seo him heris congratulati iam in hici mysather is characterire asione os hos shallow sallo fouis that ould wallo the ait, ithout perceiving the loven oti But a man like his neve is est in a book e salway greater man his ork.

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ancle hori and round to rotundity homel and floridin eature. I used to thin Socrates mus have been like in in visage a Nellos in much of his ind. He was caretess in his dress his hand in his pocheis asin rute, an strenuousint in mohingi in fleep with a large siill huli, a timorous winkle in his colit, blue eye, a Sost lo Volce, expreSSin every hin os thought in the fame, somelimes plagullydouce oneri a great power o quiet an telling in Casm, large Capacit os istening to and of e οying

M sathe - tali stim, agile, quic in his move menis, gracessit, eat to nicet in his ress, withmuch in his atris,hat is calle style, illi a faceatinos to beautila sor a mari's, ad not his eyes commande it an ali ho oohe atrat, an his Close fir mouth been ready to a what the ery spirit might id iis eos, hen a rest, expresSing

brow of exquisite curve, narro an intense his voice deein heri uiamove M and calm i leen and

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an home his hesitation arising ro his crow of impatient ideas, an his resolute ill that the should

come in their order, an some of them no come at

less, lightin his blae an ruminative pipe. Is in uncte brought up nuis to crach, in fallier

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Whole nature ivei up to what he is reading and malitia iis very oul speis. Such a man then a I have helched, 6 Washed satiati in a the ainter say, Was that person hosa in the corne unde the alter ever Sabbathday, and whoane his Gree Testament belle than his minister. He is ead too, a se monilis ago,

been omething very delicate an clos and exquisite in the relation etweei the iling, silent, beauidulandiensive mollier, and that darieyed dark-haired, bright an silent son a sorti communion it is noteas to express. ou an thin of him at elevenslowly riling ut that mali book os promises in adistinc an minute anil, quite a like his matureliand a the hy, lustrous-eye bo was to his stersei in his mant years, an sitiin by the edside While the est ere ut and shouting, playing atmidin

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s ter than an of them. His peculia beaut musthave come sto his mollier. He sed at rare times,

finement anil odii depression caused by it, Udoubino deepene his native thoughila turn, an his tentanc to meditative melancholy, as a condition under ichae viewed ali hings, and quichene and intemsised his sense of the suffering of this orld, and of the profound seriousnes and myster in themidst ofwhicli, live an die. The secon epoch was that of his leavin homewith his uinea, the ast e ver go sto any onebulaimself an his goin amon ulter Stranger tobe master os a schoo one hal of the scholars of whicli ere bigger an olde than himself, an alirough colis Willa and unbrohen. his inas his first

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fronting o the worid. Beside supportin himseli illisanit the sinew of his ind, and ad him relyon himself in actio as 'eli as in thought He ome- times, ut no Osten, Spok of this, neve lighuy, thoughae laughed a some of his predicamenis. Hecould o fossiet the rude inoch. Generali those familia revelations ere a supper, on the Sabbath evening When, his or over, he e oye and lingere ove his meat. .

Stronger, a the rudest, an insecte me res The we mature' ordere him, in that peremptor voice e ali remember, o Stani up and hol out his hand, dein no at ali sure ut in bi sello might noch him down o the word To the astonishment of the school, an to the bi reber too, he obeye and was punishe o the instant, an to the suli; ut ent the and do came the Iams, an bit like sire. From that momenti ruted them by his ye, the laetos vanished. There as an incident at this time of his life which should perhaps no teli, andi et I don' knowwhy shouldn't, it so perfecti illustrates his character in many Ways. Me had come home during the vacation