OUAKIV.J PBBMUINQ ICOH A MBD10AL DKGIIEE,
equally happy vein he contrasts Scotland and Holland,
The playful tone of these passages, the amusing touch of 2Bt,a7.
satire, and the incomparably easy style, so compact and
graceful, were announcements, properly first vouchsafed to
the delight of good Mr, Contarine, of powers that were one
day to givu unfading delight to all the world.*
Little IB known of his pursuits at Leydon; but by this
time ho would seem to have applied himself, with little
affectation of disguise, to general knowledge more than to
professional. The one was available in immediate wants;
the other pointed to but a distant hope which those very
wants mad©, daily, more obscur©; and the narrow necessities
of self-help now crowded on him. His principal means of
support were as a teacher; but the difficulties and disap-
pointmcntH of his own philosophic vagabond, whan ho want
to .Holland to teach the natives English, hhnBoM* knowing
nothing of Dutch, appear to have made it a sorry calling.
Then, it is said, he borrowed, and again resorted to play,
winning even largely, but losing all lie won ; t and it is at
least certain that he encountered every form of distress.
Unhappily, though He wrote many letters to Ireland, some
of them, detoribed from recollection as compositions of sin-
gular ease and humour, all are lout But Doctor Ellis, an
Irish physician of eminence, and ex-student of Leyduii,
* SOB Appendix (0) to tltl* volume,
•I* *' Ono morning ho muue to a follow wttulunt" (thin wrw tlm DiH-tnj- KUw, nWU
(if 1,1 iu trwh hoiwa of (mnmmtiM, mtmtiuiUKl in tlu< t«ixl) " with hw ji<»s4etii
" litcrnlly full of montiy, anil with oxHltatiim m>unU<il nut t.» him n larttn »tm»t
" whii'li 1m hiul won tho pnwwliiig «votilug, llin frU'iiil pnrit<wUy iiri»*o4 hint to
" jilay no iiiurti, but tt> wtiMiro hi* piwoiil pUiw nn i* futiil f»r «'«»iHj4etii»f| bin
" niwUi'ttl MtmlliiM, OJivor, wlm could ttlways mm wlmt wnn rinltt, UitKigh {its «wtiUl
" not nlwaya jitirwuu it., highly njiprnvwl this twlviiw, «-»<! «l«"i'Uift?il lib firm rataltt*
*' tJdii to lunkp it tho mlu of hk futiirn ivmiiuttt, But thw wHltKrtinnai »f Uto
" gfii»5i'i|{ tolilct wore irrtMtitttibltt, wit] ha wtw «uuu after »ir!j*jwl «f ewrf «hlll»ig,"
Percy MetHuip, B8,