He was certainly one of the most learned men of the age. It may be said of him as has been said of others that he was a “walking Library,” and what can be said of but few such prodigies, that the Genius of Philosophy ever walked hand in hand with him.

Year: 1826
Context: in a letter to Samuel Harrison Smith, Referring to Thomas Jefferson
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