Note 979 — BOOK V. BIOGRAPHY.

E. g. Ricardo, Senior, and Dr. Thos. Chalmers (who paid him a flying visit in October 1822: Life by Hanna, vol. ii. p. 358), and Francis Horner (Memoirs and Corresp., e. g. vol. i. p. 406). In i. 436 of his Memoirs Horner speaks of having gone with John Whishaw, the barrister, to visit Malthus at Haileybury in 1808, and takes occasion to praise his mere love of truth above the eloquence and versatility of others, though that, he says, may look like a decision in favour of dulness.