My situation was such as to enable me to bestow upon it a deliberate examination.

Viewed at more leisure, it lost none of its wonderful properties.

I could not deny my homage to the intelligence expressed in it, but was wholly uncertain, whether he were an object to be dreaded or adored, and whether his powers had been exerted to evil or to good.
He was sparing in discourse; but whatever he said was pregnant with meaning, and uttered with rectitude of articulation, and force of emphasis, of which I had entertained no conception previously to my knowledge of him.

Notwithstanding the uncouthness of his garb, his manners were not unpolished.

All topics were handled by him with skill, and without pedantry or affectation.