It is only those who… have had the opportunity of penetrating into the most secret motives of his public life, and the inmost recesses of his private life, that can do justice to the unsullied purity of his character—who like the editor saw and knew him in the evening of his days, retired from the honourable activity of a solder and a statesman to the calm enjoyment of private life, happy in the resources of his own mind, … unenriched by pensions or places, undistinguished by titles or ribbons, unsophisticated by public life and unwearied by retirement.
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