20 
Illlitya 
that if 
he 
rebuked 
him, 
it 
W BS 
certainly 
not in anger. 
Anecdotes of 
this 
kind, 
trifiing 
HS 
they 
mHY 
seem , 
have 
an 
interest 
independent 
of 
the 
sight they aiford into the character to which 
they relate. It will often appear, upon a careful 
study of authentic biography, that the means of 
giving body and-effect to their conceptions, are 
rarely withheld from men of genius. If the cir- 
cumstances of Fortune are unfavourable, Nature 
instructs 
them 
to 
draw 
assistance 
immediately 
from 
herself, 
endowing them 
bY 
with 
the faculty 
of 
perceiving 
fitness 
and 
correspondence 
in 
things 
which 
HO 
force of 
reasoning, 
founded on 
the experience of 
others, 
could 
enable 
them 
to 
discover. 
This 
aptness 
Perl] BPS, 
the 
surest 
indication 
of 
the 
possession 
of 
origi nal 
talent. 
There 
are 
minds of 
3 
high 
class 
to 
which 
the 
world, 
in 
the 
latitude 
of 
its 
expressions, 
often 
ascribes 
genius, 
but 
which 
possess 
only a supe- 
rior 
capacity for 
the 
of 
application 
other 
men's 
notions, 
unconnected 
with 
any unusual 
portion 
of the inventive faculty.