He
loved his friend; and, such were the engaging powers of his very frank
and pleasant manner, his friends all loved him.
Some encumbrances, _solito de more_ of all boys, with the coffee-house,
for jellies, fruit, &c, left when he left school, he afterwards
discharged with singular eclat.
In regard to scholarship, he was by no means wanting; though it must
be owned, he wanted always to be better strangers with them. Like many
other boys, he knew much more than he was aware of; for he had as much
aversion to the Greek Epigrams, as the best critic could have; and
in Terence, as he could find nothing to laugh, Lloyd often raised an
opposite emotion. Lloyd, had he lived to this time, would have taken
Terence as a main ingredient in his enjoyments. So benevolent is nature
to fit the feelings of man to his destiny.
M'Donald, afterwards Solicitor General, was in college, and had then
about him much that was remarkable for good value.
The different ranks in college are rather arduous trials of temper; and
he that can escape without imputation through them, and be, as it
is called, a junior without meanness, and a senior without obduracy,
exhibits much early promise, both as to talents and virtue.
This early promise was M 'Donald's. He was well-respected in either
rank, and he deserved it; for he obeyed the time, without being
time-serving; he commanded, as one not forgetting what it was to obey.
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