a
necessary consequence of their amplitude, or at least a natural
result of their exercise.

"But another reason may be given for his deficiency in those
unremitting labors which the course of academical education, in
the present times, is supposed to exact from those who aspire to
its distinctions. In the first year of his residence at
Cambridge, symptoms of disordered health, especially in the
circulatory system, began to show themselves; and it is by no
means improbable, that these were indications of a tendency to
derangement of the vital functions, which become ultimately
fatal. A too rapid determination of blood towards the brain,
with its concomitant uneasy sensations, rendered him frequently
incapable of mental fatigue. He had indeed once before, at
Florence, been affected by symptoms not unlike these. His
intensity of reflection and feeling also brought on occasionally
a considerable depression of spirits, which had been painfully
observed at times by those who watched him most, from the time
of his leaving Eton, and even before. It was not till after
several months that he regained a less morbid condition of mind
and body. This same irregularity of circulation returned again
in the next spring, but was of less duration. During the third
year of his Cambridge life, he appeared in much better health.

"In this year (1831) he obtained the first college prize for an
English declamation. The subject chosen by him was the conduct
of the Independent party during the civil war. This exercise was
greatly admired at the time, but was never printed. In
consequence of this success, it became incumbent on him,
according to the custom of the college, to deliver an oration in
the chapel immediately before the Christmas vacation of the same
year. On this occasion he selected a subject very congenial to
his own turn of thought and favorite study, the influence of
Italian upon English literature. He had previously gained
another prize for an English essay on the philosophical writings
of Cicero. This essay is perhaps too excursive from the
prescribed subject; but his mind was so deeply imbued with the
higher philosophy, especially that of Plato, with which he was
very conversant, that he could not be expected to dwell much on
the praises of Cicero in that respect.

"Tho