Indeed, I saw little of the latter.

He paid my bills, furnished me with pocket-money, and professed an intention to let me travel after I should reach my majority.

But, satisfied with these proofs of paternal care, he appeared willing to let me pursue my own course very much in my own way.
My ancestor was an eloquent example of the truth of that political dogma which teaches the efficacy of the division of labor.

No manufacturer of the head of a pin ever attained greater dexterity in his single-minded vocation than was reached by my father in the one pursuit to which he devoted, as far as human ken could reach, both soul and body.

As any sense is known to increase in acuteness by constant exercise, or any passion by indulgence, so did his ardor in favor of the great object of his affections grow with its growth, and become more manifest as an ordinary observer would be apt to think the motive of its existence at all had nearly ceased.