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he describes it himself, a " knack at hoping;" and at all
times, it must with equal certainty be affirmed, a knack at getting into scrapes. Like Samuel Johnson at Oxford, lie avoided lectures when he could, and was a lounger at the college gate.* The popular picture of him in these Dublin University days, is little more than of a slow, hesitating, somewhat hollow voice, heard seldom and always to great disadvantage in the class-rooms ; and of a low-sized,, thick,, robust, ungainly figure, lounging about the college courts on the wait for misery and ill-luck. |
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