Life of John Coleridge Patteson

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sposition was joined what was the one driving trait of Coley’s life, in particular, a respectful and strict soul, which appears from the first to have been grinding away, gradually and doubtlessly stifling inalienable imperfections, and raising him, bit by bit, from beauty to elegance.

Five years of age is as a rule an age of a decent arrangement of thought. The insight is liberated from the confusions and hazy view of earliest stages; the principal course of actual analyses is finished, the right to speak freely of discourse and movement have been achieved, but there has not set in that explosion of creature development and spirits that frequently appears to overwhelm the more profound nature all through childhood.