text:  But what opportunity is there in the navy for the display of the wonderful abilities of the fool of the family's antipode the genius? Nothing will do for the surpassing brightness of some Highland star but law or politics; so Donald has Latin and Greek shovelled into him out of the dignified hat of some prebendary or bishop goes to Oxford talks on all manner of subjects as if his tongue had discovered the perpetual motion goes to the bar where the said motion is the only one he is called upon to make forces himself into high society wriggles his way into Parliament--the true Trophonius's cave of aspiring orators--and becomes a silent Demosthenes as he has long been a lawless Coke; an ends at last in a paroxysm of wonder that his creditors are hard-hearted and his country ungrateful so that instead of being promoted to a seat at the Admiralty he is removed to one in the Fleet--which brings him very nearly to the same position he would have been placed in if a true estimate had been formed of his powers at first