...sinecure, was certainly not laborious. But here his wretched nerves were his undoing. " They," he wrote, " whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public...mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation ; others can have none." So the office was resigned, but not before the mere prospect of...

...circumstances, all urged me forward ; all pressed me to undertake that which I saw to be impracticable. They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation ; others can have...

...appear at the Bar of the House of Lords, he attempted suicide rather than face the ordeal, and wrote, " They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition is mental poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation — others can have none." It was...

...meantime his relative's honour, and his own circumstances, urged him to an attempt. ' Those,' he says, ' whose spirits are formed like mine, ' to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is ' mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situ' ation ; others can...

...They whose spirits are formed like mine to whom a public examination of themselves on any occasion is mortal poison may have some idea of the horrors of my situation ; others can have none. My continual misery at length brought on a nervous fever : quiet...