My Edinburgh expedition has given me so much to say that, unless I write off some of it before I come home, I shall talk you all to death, and be voted a bore in every house which I visit.

I will commence with Jeffrey himself.

I had almost forgotten his person; and, indeed, I should not wonder if even now I were to forget it again.

He has twenty faces almost as unlike each other as my father's to Mr.Wilberforce's, and infinitely more unlike to each other than those of near relatives often are; infinitely more unlike, for example, than those of the two Grants.

When absolutely quiescent, reading a paper, or hearing a conversation in which he takes no interest, his countenance shows no indication whatever of intellectual superiority of any kind.