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GREAT MEN'S BODIES at the last election, to keep him on the Bench for fourteen more years, by the greatest vote ever given to one man for any office in the City of New York!

And what a cloud of other witnesses! Look at the masculine, clearly chiselled face and muscular neck of Dante—poet of marvellous power, soldier, scholar, citizen, ruler, ambassador, exile, dependent, he who knew riches and festivities; and who also knew poverty and the salt bread of other men's tables.

At Byron, though so lame from birth that he could only walk on his toes; yet of "good figure, broad chest, and amazing length of arms, playing cricket in the match against Eton," though he had to have another fellow to run for him: fighting Lord Calthorpe for calling him an atheist; boxing, riding, swimming matches; swimming three miles on the Thames; and across the Hellespont.

At Selwyn, Gladstone's friend; till sixty-nine Bishop of New Zealand, "of great versatility, courage, and energy; mastering navigation and becoming his own sailing-master in his mission-work in the dangerous waters of the South Pacific." At Eton distinguished both as a scholar and as an athlete; rowing No. 7 in the Cambridge losing eight in the first 'Varsity race, in 1829, against Bishop Wordsworth, rowing at No. 4 in the Oxford winning eight; who, when a footpad once met him on a lone road and demanded his watch and money, took off his coat and vest, with his valuables in the pockets of the latter, laid them on the ground, and told his accostant to whip him and he could have them; an interview at once ensued—a touching interview—in which the ground flew up and hit the stranger in the back of the head, the garments resuming their wonted place on the back of the 435