In fact, he was born for the law; clear, discriminating, judicious,
alive, and with a noble impartiality to all sides of questions, and
which none could defend better. This goes, however, only to the powers
of his head; in those of the heart no one, and in the best ~85~~ and
tenderest qualities of it, ever stood better. He was liked universally,
and should be so; for no man was ever more meritorious for being good,
as he who had all the abilities which sometimes make a man otherwise.
In the progress of life mind changes often, and body almost always. Both
these rules, however, he lived to contradict; for his talents and his
qualities retained their virtue; and when a boy he was as tall as when a
man, and apparently the same.
Capel Loft. In the language of Eton the word gig comprehended all that
was ridiculous, all that was to be laughed at, and plagued to death; and
of all gigs that was, or ever will be, this gentleman, while a boy, was
the greatest.
He was like nothing, "in the heavens above, or the waters under the
earth;" and therefore he was surrounded by a mob of boys whenever he
appeared. These days of popularity were not pleasant. Luckily, however,
for himself, he found some refuge from persecution in his scholarship.
This scholarship was much above the rate, and out of the manner of
common boys.
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