[149:2] See Vol. I. p. 221.
[149:3] Memorials of Oswald, p. 79.
[149:4] Scroll MS. R.S.E.
[150:1] William Johnstone of Westerhall, afterwards Sir William Pulteney.
[150:2] MS. R.S.E.
[151:1] Stewart's Life of Reid. It is not stated whether the date is estimated by the old or the new style. Hume's birth-day is old style.
[152:1] Oeuvres Philosophiques de M. D. Hume, &c., 4 vols. 12mo, 1764.
[153:1] When are the public to be in possession of Sir William Hamilton's edition of Reid? I have had the privilege of seeing the proof sheets of this work, so far as it had proceeded, before ill health had, for a time, interrupted the labours of the professor of logic. The quantity of learning and deep thought concentrated in the commentary, is such as, perhaps, but one man in this country could have brought together; and the natural feeling suggested on the perusal was, regret that so much of these qualities had been expended in notes and illustrative essays, instead of being published in a separate work.
[154:1] Stewart's Life of Reid.
[156:1] MS. R.S.E.