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Dr. ADAM SMITH.
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hearty meal, in private, upon Cicero and Virgil, as well as Mr. Hume[1]. Few persons (though, perhaps, as Mr. Hume says, upon a like occasion, "I ought not to judge on that subject") have a quicker relish for the productions of genius, and the beauties of composition. It is therefore as little in my intention, as it is in my power, to prejudice the literary character of your friend. From some of his writings I have received great pleasure, and have ever esteemed his History of England to have been a noble effort of Matter and Motion. But when a
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