...rst year after leaving college in study, reading, among other things, Tacitus, Juvenal, Persius, Shakespeare, and Milton, Burton's , Wakefield's , Moore's , Butler's , Hume's , Hallam, Robertson, and Roscoe , and making a new attempt at the mathematics. He then, rather reluctantly, chose the law as his pursuit in life. No trace can be found in his biography of any inclination towards the practice o...