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LIFE OF COBLEN.

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lssz. 1832), “for your future prosperity, and I wish that 1 could
Ax. 28. convince you, as I feel convinced, that it all depends upon
gour bringing out with spirit the talents you possess. 1
wish that I could impart to you a little of that Bonapartian
foeling with which I am imbued—a feeling that spurs me on
with the conviction that all the obstacles to fortune with
which I am impeded, will (nay, shall) yield if assailed with
snergy. All is lost fo you, if you succumb to those desponding
 views which you mentioned when we last spoke. Dame
Fortune, like other fair ones, loves a brisk and confident
wooer. I want to see you able to pitch your voice in 8
higher key, especially when you are espousing your owp
interests, and above all, never to see you yield or become
passive and indifferent when your cause is just, and only
wants to be spiritedly supported to be sure of a triumph
But all this must proceed from within, and can be only the
fruits of a larger growth of spirit, to the cultivation of
which without further lecture I most earnestly commend
you.”
A more curious picture still is to be found in another
letter, also to his brother, written a few months later (Apri
12, 1832). He describes his commercial plans as fall of
solidity, ““ sure for the present, and what is still better, oper
mg a vista to my view of ambitious hopes and scheme?
almost boundless. Sometimes I confess I allow this sort of
feeling to gain a painful and harassing ascendancy over mé
[t disquiets me in the night as well as day. It gnaws mJ
very entrails (a positive truth), and yet if T ask, What is al
this yearning after ? I can scarcely give myself a satisfying
answer. Surely not for money; I feel a disregard for it, and
sven a slovenly inattention to its possession, that is quit
dangerous. I have scarcely ever, as usnal, a sovereign in 10f
pocket, and have been twice to Whalley, to find myself with
out the means of paying my expenses. I do not thinlk the!