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Show [46] [47] of the detail, he did not feem to have his genuous 1711.1in. view, at leafi equally, car1ied to the total circuit of our affairs. He generally confidered his ol1je€ts in lights that were rather too (1e. tached. \Vhether the hnfincfs of an Ameri~ by the low pimping politics of a court, but to can revenue v» as impofed upon him altogether; whethe1 it was entirely the relult of his own lpeculation; 01. what is more probable, that It was to raife himfelf, not win his way to p011 c1 through the laborious yr.1d1tions of public le1vice; and to fecure to liinnelt a 11 ell- ea111ed 1ank111 Parliament, by a thorough knowledge of its eonfiitution, and a perfect prac‘tice in all its bufinefis. his own ideas 1ather coinc:(l1:d with the111firuflions he had 1ece11<d, certain it is, that, with the bell intentions in the world, he firfl brought this fatal {theme into form, and efia- be from defects not intrinfical; they mull be blifl1ed it by act of parliament. grodndwork of diameter, yet tinge it with No man can believe, that at this time of day I mean to lean on the venerable memory of a great man, whole lols we deplore in common. Our little party-differences have been long ago compofed; and I have acted mme with him, and certainly with mom pleafure Sir, if fuch a man fell into errors, it mull rather fought in the particular habits of his life,' which, though they do not alte1 the tl1ei1 own hue. He was bred1n :1 profeflion. He was bred to the law, which18, in my opinion, one of the firfl: and nobleft of human feicnces, a feience which does more to quicken and invigorate the unde1flanding, than all the with him, than ever I afted againfi him. L11- other kinds of learning put together; but it is not apt, except 111 perlons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly111 doubtedly Mr. G1enville was a firf‘t-iate figure 111 this country. \\ 1th a mafculine under- he did not go very la1gely into the wo1ld; fianding, and aflout and relolute heart, he had an application undifhpated and unwearied. He took public bulinefs, not as a duty which he was to fulfil, but as a pleafure he was to the lame p1oportion.Pafl1ng from that ftudy but plungedb into bufinefs; I mean into the bulinefs of office; and the limited and fixed methods and forms eltabliihed there. Much knowledge is to be had undoubtedly in that enjoy; and he feemed to have no delight out line, and thereIS no knowledge whichIS not of this Houfe, except in fuch things as iome valuable. But it may be truly:3faid, that men too much converfant111 office, are rarely minds way related to the hulinels that was to be done within it. If he was ambitious, 1 will fay this for him, his ambition was of a noble and generous of remarkable enlargement. Their habits of office are apt to g1ve them a turn to think the fubflance |