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It developed in Canning all his natural propensities. He Bias the show boy at Mont^n days with master and studentj " Look, papa, — there, there ; — that good^ooking feUow is Canning — such a clever chap, but a horrible Whig. By Jupiter, how he gives it to Pitt !" Nor was this wonderful. The youthful politician spent his holidays with his uncle, who only saw AYhigs ; and then, what clever boy would not have been charmed by the wit and rhetoric of Sheridan— by the burning elo- quignce of Fox? (Th...e same dispositions that had shown themselves at Eton, carried to Oxford, produced the same distinctions. Sedulous at his studies, almost Kepublican in his prin- ciples, the pride of his college, the glory of his debating society, the intimate associate of the first young men in birth, talents, and prospects, young Canning was thus early known as the brilliant and promising young man of his day, and thought likely to be one of the most distin- 364: HISTORICAL CHARACTERS. guished of those intellectual gladiators whom the great parties employed in their struggles for power ; struggles which seemed at the moment to disorder the administration of affairs, but which, carried on with eloquence and ability in the face of the nation, kept its attention alive to national interests, and could not fail to diffusejihroughout it a lofty spirit, and a sort of pohtical education!
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