recently uncovered biography of Edward Delafield, MD

90 SAMUELS: Edward Delafield: A Sketch
cultivated literary tastes; his language was at once chaste,
select and forcible. He was a great favorite with his students.
While affable to his intimate associates, he was at the same
time dignified and reserved in his general manners. He knew
how to resent an impertinence and check forwardness and
presumption. No one who knew him ever thought of taking
a liberty with him-his stately manner would at once rebuke
any undue familiarity."
Of all that our first President witnessed and accomplished
during the days of his years only a tithe has been brought to
light out of the distant past, but of it we have learned enough
to seek the grace to emulate a noble, fruitful, and inspiring
life.