"حياة ومراسلات اللواء السير جون مالكوم، قائد فرسان وسام الطُهر، المبعوث السابق إلى بلاد فارس وحاكم بومباي؛ من رسائل ومذكرات غير منشورة. في مجلّدين. المجلد II." [‎٦‎١‎٥] (٦٥٤/٦٣٢)

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ties, generally supposed to be antagonistic, were com
bined in the same person. It is no small tiling to cope
with a tiger in the jungle; it is no small tiring to draw
up an elaborate state paper; it is no small tiling to write
the history of a nation; it is no small thing to conduct
to a successful issue a difficult negotiation at a foreign
court; it is no small thing to lead an army to victory:
and I think it may with truth be said, that he who could
do all these things with such brilliant success as Sir John
Malcolm, was a very remarkable man in a very remark
able age. , , t
It may be doubted as a general rule whether the union
in the same person of many remarkable qualities is con
ducive either to the extent or the permanence of his re
putation. The numerous and varied successes of such a
man as Sir John Malcolm jostle and dwarf each other,
and have a distracting effect upon the public mine. t
is commonly said of a man so gifted that he would lave
been held in repute as an eminent author, if he hat no
been a great soldier; or that he would have been
esteemed as a great soldier, if he had not been a great
diplomatist and a great administrator. And it is leaiiy
so common to turn the very largeness and overflow ol a
man's gifts to his disadvantage, that I believe he oiten
contracts his reputation in the worlds eye by that
which, if there were no envy and no jealousy, no 1
ness and no malice among us, would immeasurably
extend it. The mathematician's
—" a part greater than the whole, which is impossi e
is practically held in high esteem by tbe ; TOr d ' f fg^
sits in judgment upon the merits of such a ™n as ^
John Malcolm. But no one who does not ^
account all that he did m the clo s et ' nl ^ •
chamber and in the field, and comprehend m one