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 pleasure and business, he went on with the great work, which he knew would add lustre to his name, let it be as brilliant for a young man as it could. His attendance, too, was much demanded at court; and on all public occasions, where his accomplishments could be concerned, he appears either to have been called forward by others, or to have made his way by the united warmth of his genius and ambition. He wrote hymeneal odes; he delivered orations at the Opening of Academies; he was appointed, in his twenty-eighth year, Professor of Geometry and Astronomy; he sustained those alarming things called Amorous Conclusions, in