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himself and made all around him so, for his disposition
was gay and cheerful and his hopes always sanguine--
A great part of his pecuniary vexations arose from his
passion for horses, as it led him into engagements with
men whom he would otherwise have shunned, and from being
too easily induced to endorse and become Security for persons
who many of them proved unworthy of his friendship and
confidence.
He thought of the future as well, and perhaps more than
the present, and his schemes were geared, and tended to the aggran-
dizement and happiness of all nations and the good of all mankind. *
With respect to his own private plans, he might be thought
visionary inasmuch as he planned, what it proved that his
means would not enable him to execute; tho' he always hoped
to obtain the means to realize his Wishes! But alas! he lived
not to compleat any of his plans, but left all unfinished! tho'
his industry and activity were unsurpassed. Even during his
last illness, when confined to his bed (during nine weeks) he was
occupied with public and private business, and his industry only
failed with his mind, which was but a few days previous to his
decease. The arduous task of winding up his unfinished