Economists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Smith, Adam, 1723-1790
[78] Burton's _Life of Hume_, i. 375.
[79] Mr. Burton thinks the Society mentioned in this paragraph to be
"evidently the Philosophical Society" of Edinburgh, but it seems much
more likely to have been the Literary Society of Glasgow, of which
Hume was also a member. Of the Philosophical Society he was himself
Secretary, and would therefore have been in the position of giving
warning rather than receiving it; nor would he have spoken of sending
that Society a paper which he would be on the spot to read himself.
Whether Smith was Secretary of the Glasgow Literary Society I do not
know, but even if he were not it would be nothing strange though the
communications of the Society with Hume were carried on through Smith,
his chief friend among the members, and his regular correspondent.
[80] Burton's _Life of Hume_, i. 417.
[81] Carlyle's _Autobiography_, p. 275.
[82] Burton's Scot Abroad, ii. 340.
[83] Minutes of Select Society, Advocates' Library, Edinburgh.
[84] Ibid.
[85] _Scots Magazine_, xix. 163.
[86] Burton's _Scot Abroad_, ii. 343.
[87] _Scots Magazine_ for year 1755, p. 126.
[88] Lord Campbell's _Lives of the Chancellors_, vi. 32.
[89] _Scots Magazine_, xxvi. 229.
[90] The _Bee_ for June 1791.
[91] Tytler's _Life of Lord Kames_, i. 233.
[92] _Life of John Home_, p. 24.
[93] Burton's _Scot Abroad_, ii. 343.
[94] Douglas's _Select Works_, p. 23.
[95] The _Bee_ for 1791.
[96] Burton's _Life of Hume_, ii. 16.
[97] Professor of Logic.
[98] Burton's _Life of Hume_, ii. 45.
[99] Fraser's _The Lennox_, p. xliv.
[100] _Carlyle Correspondence_, Edinburgh University Library.
[101] _Wealth of Nations_, Book V. chap. i.
[102] "Memoirs of Black," _Transactions,_ R.S.E., v. 113.
[103] _Carlyle Correspondence,_ Edinburgh University.
[104] Small, _Sketch of A. Ferguson,_ p. 23.
[105] Kames, _Sketches of Man_, Book II. chap. ix.
[106] Campbell's _Lives of the Lord Chancellors_, vi. 28.
CHAPTER IX
THE "THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS"
1759. _Aet._ 36
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