Montague owed every thing to his own merit and to the public opinion of his merit.

With his master he appears to have had very little intercourse, and none that was not official.

He was in truth a living monument of what the Revolution had done for the Country.

The Revolution had found him a young student in a cell by the Cam, poring on the diagrams which illustrated the newly discovered laws of centripetal and centrifugal force, writing little copies of verses, and indulging visions of parsonages with rich glebes, and of closes in old cathedral towns had developed in him new talents; had held out to him the hope of prizes of a very different sort from a rectory or a prebend.

His eloquence had gained for him the ear of the legislature.
His skill in fiscal and commercial affairs had won for him the confidence of the City.