...greatest depth of thought, and a capacity in every respect the most comprehensive. Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and...human frailty will permit. I ever am, dear Sir, most af. fcetionately yours, ADAM SMITH. Soite of the last choice Kurds of Dr. SAMUEL FI\LLY, President...

...greatest depth of thought; and a capacity in every respect the most comprehensive. Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and...perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature ef human frailty will permit. I ever am, dear Sir, Most affectionately yours, ADAM SMITH. V CONTENTS...

...confidential letter to his friend, but a letter which is published* with all formality) : " Upon the whole, I have always considered him, " both in his lifetime, and since his death, as approach* This letter, though shattered by the sharp shot of Dr. Home of Oxford's wit, in the character...

...has delivered the following testimony: — " I have always considered Mr. Hume, both in his life time and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." — Letter from Adam Smith, LLD to W. Strahan, Esq. annexed to Hume's Life, and prefixed to the late...

...instance, who is not to be suspected of ehthueiastical feeling ; and whom Dr. A. Smith considered, ' as approaching as nearly to the idea of a ' perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of hu' man frailty will permit,' having made literary distinction his ruling passion, was so exasperated...

...man as Adam Smith h»s delivered the following testimony : — " I have always considered Mr. Hume, both in his life-time and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a PERFECTLY wise ^IND viitTuocs MAN, as perhaps the nature of human frailty Will permit." '—Letter from, Mam Smith...

...eonsiders, " both in his lifetime and sinee his death, as approaehing as nearly to the idea of o perfeetly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit !" Let us now view a Christian's antieipation of death. Wateh thou in all tilings, endure afflietions,...

...less singular than this, in a strain very similar, "I have always considered Mr. Hume, both in bis lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit."* We do therefore say, that we see no satisfactory evidence of that sincere and habitual piety of which...

...incomparably " the BEST." Life, p. 16'. " I have always considered Mr. Hume, both in his life" time, and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the...perhaps " the nature of human frailty will permit" PREFACE. LET no reader take offence, though the subjects debated in the following pages be of a serious...

...incomparably " the BEST." Life, p. 16. " I have always considered Mr. Hume, both in his life" time, and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the " idea of a PERFECTLY WISE AKD VIRTUOUS MAN, as perhaps " the nature of human frailty will permit" PREFACE. LET no reader take...