He was industrious, patient, clear-sighted, intelligent, courageous, and determined.

Long before he had had a seat in the House, when he was simply making his way up to the probability of a seat by making a reputation as an advocate, he had resolved that he would be more than an Attorney-General, more than a judge,--more, as he thought it, than a Chief Justice; but at any rate something different.

This plan he had all but gained,--and it must be acknowledged that he had been moved by a grand and manly ambition.
But there were drawbacks to the utility and beauty of Sir Timothy's character as a statesman.

He had no idea as to the necessity or non-necessity of any measure whatever in reference to the well-being of the country.

It may, indeed, be said that all such ideas were to him absurd, and the fact that they should be held by his friends and supporters was an inconvenience.