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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 he
avoided lectures when ho could, and Waa a ioimger at '^
college gate * The popular picture of him in thege Dub]in
University clays, m little more, than of a slow, hesitating
somewhat hollow voice, heard neldoni and always to great
disadvantage in the clasn-ruomH ; and of a low-sized, thick
robust, ungainly figure, luiuiging about the college courts on
the wait for misery and ill-luck,

His Edgeworthstown schoolfellow, Beatty, had entered
among the sizars with him, and for a time shared his rooms.
They are described as the top-rooms adjoining the library
of the building numbnrwl 8/f. whom the name of Oliver
.Goldsmith may still bo wcii, wn-atchorf by himself upon a
window-pane,!- Another siair, Marshall, is said to have
been another of his uhimw. Among his occasional asso-
ciates, were certainly Edward Mills, Ida relative ; Robert
Bryanton, a Ballymahoit youth, nlno his relative, of whom
he was fond; Charles ,md Edward Purdon, whom he lived
to befriend; James Willingtan, whoHe name lie afterwards
had permission to use in London, for low literary work he
was ashamed to put his own to ; t Wilson § and Kearney,
subsequently doctors and fellows of the college; Wolfen
also well known; || and Lauchlim Miic-Jonne, whose political
pamphlets, muwceptfld clmlli-iiffo to Willcos, and general
party oxoitiouB.-made a iwm In the world twenty or thirty

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uoouaionally made by

hi. oontemporariBB with
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