He did not hold his present occupations in abhorrence, because they withheld him from paths more flowery and more smooth, but he found in unintermitted labour, and in the sternness of his master, sufficient occasions for discontent.

No opportunities of recreation were allowed him.

He spent all his time pent up in a gloomy apartment, or traversing narrow and crowded streets.

His food was coarse, and his lodging humble.

His heart gradually contracted a habit of morose and gloomy reflection.