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CHAF. ii.] COLLEGE.

might have prompted only the over *J⁴⁵-

the meanest circumstance, proved to the lesson **•^ir-

yet in his life's hard school. He with all his

strength; little less than a whole year, it is obstinately

resisted the new contempts and loss of worldly consideration
thus bitterly set before him. He would hate gone to

the trade chalked out for him as his alternative,—when

uncle Contarine interfered.

• This was an excellent man ; means, thongh

very far from considerable, to do to Ms kindly

impulses. In youth he had the companion of

Bishop Berkeley,* and was worthy to so divine a

Mend. He too was a clergyman; and the living of

Kilmore near Carrick-on-Shannon, which he afterwards
changed to that of Oran near Roscommon; where he built
the house of Embleniore, changed to that of Tempe by its
subsequent possessor, Mr. Edward Mills, Goldsmith's relative
and contemporary. Mr. Contarine had married Charles
Goldsmith's sister (who died at about this time, leaving one
child), and was the only member of the Goldsmith family of
whom we have solid evidence that he at any times took pains
with. Oliver, or felt anything like a real pride in him. He bore
the greater part of his school expenses; t and was used to
receive him with delight in holidays, as the playfellow of
his daughter Jane, a year or two older than Oliver, and
some seven years after this married to a Mr. Lander. How
little the most charitable of men will make allowance for
differences of temper and disposition in the education of
youth, is too well known: Mr. Contarine told Oliver that

* See note to Pcrty AfeiMiir, 17, 18,

•j- "The rev. Mr. Greene," the son of the reete of Kilkenny Week, "also
"liberally assisted, as Dr. Goldsmith- used to relate, im tfais beaeieeflt parpose."
Percy Memoir, 6.



	CHAF. ii.] COLLEGE. might have prompted only the over J⁴⁵- the meanest circumstance, proved to the lesson •^ir- yet in his life's hard school. He with all his strength; little less than a whole year, it is obstinately resisted the new contempts and loss of worldly consideration thus bitterly set before him. He would hate gone to the trade chalked out for him as his alternative,—when uncle Contarine interfered. • This was an excellent man ; means, thongh very far from considerable, to do to Ms kindly impulses. In youth he had the companion of Bishop Berkeley, and was worthy to so divine a Mend. He too was a clergyman; and the living of Kilmore near Carrick-on-Shannon, which he afterwards changed to that of Oran near Roscommon; where he built the house of Embleniore, changed to that of Tempe by its subsequent possessor, Mr. Edward Mills, Goldsmith's relative and contemporary. Mr. Contarine had married Charles Goldsmith's sister (who died at about this time, leaving one child), and was the only member of the Goldsmith family of whom we have solid evidence that he at any times took pains with. Oliver, or felt anything like a real pride in him. He bore the greater part of his school expenses; t and was used to receive him with delight in holidays, as the playfellow of his daughter Jane, a year or two older than Oliver, and some seven years after this married to a Mr. Lander. How little the most charitable of men will make allowance for differences of temper and disposition in the education of youth, is too well known: Mr. Contarine told Oliver that * See note to *Pcrty* AfeiMiir, 17, 18, •j- "The rev. Mr. Greene," the son of the reete of Kilkenny Week, "also "liberally assisted, as Dr. Goldsmith- used to relate, im tfais beaeieeflt parpose." Percy Memoir, 6.