Often in later years I have heard my father, after expressing an earnest desire for some object, exclaim, 'If I had only Tom's power of speech!' But he should have remembered that all gifts are not given to one, and that perhaps such a union as he coveted is even impossible.

Parents must be content to see their children walk in their own path, too happy if through any road they attain the same end, the living for the glory of God and the good of man." From a marvellously early date in Macaulay's life public affairs divided his thoughts with literature, and, as he grew to manhood, began more and more to divide his aspirations.

His father's house was much used as a centre of consultation by members of Parliament who lived in the suburbs on the Surrey side of London; and the boy could hardly have heard more incessant, and assuredly not more edifying, political talk if he had been brought up in Downing Street.

The future advocate and interpreter of Whig principles was not reared in the Whig faith.

Attached friends of Pitt, who in personal conduct, and habits of life, certainly came nearer to their standard than his great rival,--and warmly in favour of a war which, to their imagination, never entirely lost its early character of an internecine contest with atheism .-- the Evangelicals in the House of Commons for the most part acted with the Tories.