"I have not the Chancellor's encyclopaedic mind. He is indeed a kind of semi-Solomon. He half knows everything from the cedar to the hyssop."

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Letter to Macvey Napier (17 December 1830), quoted in Selection From the Correspondence of the Late Macvey Napier, Esq., ed. Macvey Bapier (1879), pp. 98-99