He 's got the aptitudes for his office.
He won't do much to save his Church.

I knew another who had his aptitude for the classics, and he has mounted.

He was my tutor when I was a girl.
He was fond of declaiming passages from Lucian and Longus and Ovid.

One day he was at it with a piece out of Daphnis and Chloe, and I said, "Now translate." He fetched a gurgle to say he couldn't, and I slapped his check.

Will you believe it?
the man was indignant.