Alexander has been dead upwards of two thousand years, but the very English bumpkins sometimes christen their boys by the name of Alexander--can there be a greater evidence of his greatness?
As for Napoleon, there are some parts of India in which his bust is worshipped." Wishing to make up a triumvirate, I mentioned the name of Wellington, to which Francis Ardry merely said, "Bah!" and resumed the subject of dog- fighting.
Francis Ardry remained at the inn during that day and the next, and then departed to the dog and lion fight; I never saw him afterwards, and merely heard of him once after a lapse of some years, and what I then heard was not exactly what I could have wished to hear.

He did not make much of the advantages which he possessed, a pity, for how great were those advantages,--person, intellect, eloquence, connection, riches! yet, with all these advantages, one thing highly needful seems to have been wanting in Francis.

A desire, a craving, to perform something great and good.

Oh! what a vast deal may be done with intellect, courage, riches, accompanied by the desire of doing something great and good! Why, a person may carry the blessings of civilisation and religion to barbarous, yet at the same time beautiful and romantic lands; and what a triumph there is for him who does so! what a crown of glory! of far greater value than those surrounding the brows of your mere conquerors.

Yet who has done so in these times?
Not many; not three, not two, something seems to have been always wanting; there is, however, one instance, in which the various requisites have been united, and the crown, the most desirable in the world--at least which I consider to be the most desirable--achieved, and only one, that of Brooke of Borneo..