. Biography of the signers to the Declaration of independence . is coun-try, without the avarice of the Roman; for a more disin-terested person never lived. Temperance and regularity inall his habits, gave him general good health, and his unaf-fected modesty and suavity of manners endeared him to everyone. He was of easy elocution, his language cliaste, me-thodical in the arrangement of his matter, learned and logi-cal in the use of it, and of great urbanity in debate. Notquick of apprehension, but with a little time, profound inpenetration, and sound in conclusion. In his philosophy hewas fir
. Biography of the signers to the Declaration of independence . is coun-try, without the avarice of the Roman; for a more disin-terested person never lived. Temperance and regularity inall his habits, gave him general good health, and his unaf-fected modesty and suavity of manners endeared him to everyone. He was of easy elocution, his language cliaste, me-thodical in the arrangement of his matter, learned and logi-cal in the use of it, and of great urbanity in debate. Notquick of apprehension, but with a little time, profound inpenetration, and sound in conclusion. In his philosophy hewas firm, and neither troubling, nor perhaps trusting anyone with his religious creed, he left to the world the conclu-sion, that that religion must be good which could produce alife of such exemplary virtue. His stature was of the middle size, well formed and pro-portioned, and the features of his face, manly, comely, andengaging. Such was George Wythe, the honour of his own,and model of future times. THE NEW YORKPUBLIC IIPBARY AitW, CKMOX AtiOPSJiW r>3W*0KT\ lEiDipyon) :kmwki: :l:es. a teoving bvIrfin}»iiciv from an orignwl ininiatni RICHARD HENRY LEE. To censure a just pride of ancestry would be to lessen theincentives of virtue ; and since he who was the idol of apeoples worship has declared, even wlien holding up toscorn the folly of aristocracy, that the glory of our fore-fathers is a light to their posterity, it may be permitted toobserve, that Richard Henry Lee traces his descent fi-omone of the most ancient and distinguished families in Virginia. The firmness and policy of his great grandfather, obtainednominally for Virginia, what his own energetic eloquenceand active patriotism afterwards contributed effectually tosecure to her, the title of an independent dominion. Whenthe arbitrary taxation of the first king Charles of Englandhad lost to him his kingdom and his life, as Virginia hadnot suffered with the parent state, so she shared not in itsjoy on this
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