"When residing at Carlisle," he says, "if I wanted to write any thing particularly well, I used to order a post-chaise, and go to a quiet comfortable inn, at Longtown, where I was safe from the trouble and bustle of a family, and there I remained until I had finished what I was about." In this he was A CONTRAST TO DR. GOLDSMITH, Who, when he meditated his incomparable poem of the "Deserted Village," went into the country, and took a lodging at a farm-house, where he remained several weeks in the enjoyment of rural ease and picturesque scenery, but could make no progress in his work. At last he came back to a lodging in Green-Arbour Court, opposite Newgate, and there, in a comparatively short time, in the heart of the metropolis, surrounded with all the antidotes to ease, he completed his task--_quam nullum ultra verbum_. PALEY'S DIFFICULTIES A USEFUL LESSON TO YOUTH. Soon after he became senior wrangler, having no immediate prospect of a fellowship, he became an assistant in a school at Greenwich, where, he says, I pleased myself with the imagination of the delightful task I was about to undertake, "teaching the young idea how to shoot." As soon as I was seated, a little urchin came up to me and began,--"_b_-_a_-_b_, bab, _b_-_l_-_e_, ble, babble!" Nevertheless, at this time, the height of his ambition was to become the first assistant. During this period, he says, he restricted himself for some time to the mere necessaries of life, in order that he might be enabled to discharge a few debts, which he had incautiously contracted at Cambridge. "My difficulties," he observes, "might afford a useful lesson to youth of good principles; for my privations produced a habit of economy which was of infinite service to me ever after." At this time I wanted a waistcoat, and went into a second-hand clothes-shop. It so chanced that I bought the very same garment that Lord Clive wore when he made his triumphal entry into Calcutta. IN HIS POVERTY HE WAS LIKE PARR. The finances of the latter obliged him to leave Cambridge _without_ a degree; after he had been assistant at Harrow, had a school at Stanmore, and been head master of the grammar school at Colchester, and had become head master of that of Norwich, they remained so low that once looking upon a small library, says Mr. Field, in his Life of the Doctor, "his eye was caught by the title, 'Stephani Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ,' turning suddenly about, and striking violently the arm of the person whom he addressed, in a manner very unusual with him, 'Ah! my friend, my friend,' he exclaimed, 'may _you_ never be forced, as _I_ was at Norwich, to sell that work--to _me_ so precious--from absolute and urgent necessity!'" "At one time of my life," he said, "I had but 14_l._ in the world. But then, I had good spirits, and owed no man sixpence!" PORSON, TOO, WAS A CONTRAST TO PALEY.