The sentiments are honest, elevated, and manly, and the political doctrine is sound.

Mr.
Webster was then a boy of eighteen, and he therefore took his politics from his father and his father's friends.

For the same reason he was imitative in style and mode of thought.

All boys of that age, whether geniuses or not, are imitative, and Mr.Webster, who was never profoundly original in thought, was no exception to the rule.

He used the style of the eighteenth century, then in its decadence, and very florid, inflated, and heavy it was.