text:  A self-reliance amounting in weaker and less equally-balanced natures to doggedness and conceit--a clear perception of the circumstances of a case almost resembling intuition--a patriotism verging on the romantic and a sense of duty never for a moment yielding to the "whips and scorns that patient merit of the unworthy takes " are displayed in every incident of his life from the time that he left the quiet parsonage-house at Burnham Thorpe till he finished his glorious career