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 tender Eentiment and stern will. If he I be firm, he could not be moved. If sym; was deserved, he rendered it not m unsolicited but at times unexpected, was necessary that intellect should be ap he did it with unsparing rigour to the ini gation of a question with searching scr and persistenc)^ It may be said of hi: some of you, may remember an English said with profound patriotism aboiit tlie Thames, that he was

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