In this object, at least, his own education was perfectly successful; for the tastes which he acquired under his father's roof remained with him to the end.

What strikes us in his course of study is its desultoriness and its comprehensiveness.

At one time and another he gained an acquaintance with English, French, Italian, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.

He read widely in history, secular and sacred, and in the later stage of his early studies he took up law at the express desire of his father.

It was the aim of his father's scheme of education that accomplishments should form an essential part of it.