[363] Ib. 389, etc.
[364] Ib. 384.
[365] Ib. 343, 344, 387, etc.
[366] Corr., iv. 346.
[367] Ib. 390. A letter from Hume to Blair, long before the rupture overt, shows the former to have been by no means so phlegmatic on this occasion as he may have seemed. "I hope," he writes, "you have not so bad an opinion of me as to think I was not melted on this occasion; I assure you I kissed him and embraced him twenty times, with a plentiful effusion of tears. I think no scene of my life was ever more affecting." Burton, ii. 315. The great doubters of the eighteenth century could without fear have accepted the test of the ancient saying, that men without tears are worth little.
[368] Bernardin de St. Pierre, Oeuv., xii. 79.
[369] Walpole's Letters, v. 7 (Cunningham's edition). For other letters from the shrewd coxcomb on the same matter, see pp. 23-28. A corroboration of the statement that Hume knew nothing of the letter until he was in England, may be inferred from what he wrote to Madame de Boufflers; Burton, ii. 306, and n. 2.
[370] Bernardin de St. Pierre, Oeuv., xii. 79.
[371] To Adam Smith. Burton, 380.
[372] Burton, 381.