Aiming at something, he knew not what, he ransacked Europe and India for adventures, and abandoning the fair pretensions he began with, he became the knight-errant of modern times.
It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.

It is more so to see one's-self deceived.

Mr.Pitt had merited nothing, but he promised much.

He gave symptoms of a mind superior to the meanness and corruption of courts.

His apparent candour encouraged expectations; and the public confidence, stunned, wearied, and confounded by a chaos of parties, revived and attached itself to him.