In the work of this enlarged self- education he was engaged, and, until it was finished, he shrunk from the appearance of attempting to instruct others.

He had in him all the elements which would have insured the success of early efforts at display--a fluent speech, a fine elocution, quick conception, a brilliant fancy.

But his ambition,.

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while it aspired to a lofty eminence, was content to see that eminence still in the distance." Mr.Winthrop adds, "Principle, unyielding and uncompromising principle, was the very breath of his soul, and pervaded and animated his whole intellectual system.