opulence, and by intermarriages is connected with many other noble families.  When I was at the Hague, I was received with all the affection of kindred.  The present Sommelsdyck has an important charge in the Republick, and is as worthy a man as lives.  He has honoured me with his correspondence for these twenty years.  My great grandfather, the husband of Countess Veronica, was Alexander, Earl of Kincardine, that eminent Royalist whose character is given by Burnet in his History of his own Times.  From him the blood of Bruce flows in my veins.  Of such ancestry who would not be proud?  And, as Nihil est, nisi hoc sciat alter, is peculiarly true of genealogy, who would not be glad to seize a fair opportunity to let it be known.  BOSWELL.  Boswell visited Holland in 1763. Ante, i. 473.  Burnet says that ’the Earl was both the wisest and the worthiest man that belonged to his country, and fit for governing any affairs but his own; which he by a wrong turn, and by his love for the public, neglected to his ruin.  His thoughts went slow and his words came much slower; but a deep judgment appeared in everything he said or did.  I may be, perhaps, inclined to carry his character too far; for he was the first man that entered into friendship with me.’  Burnet’s History, ed. 1818, i.  III.  ’The ninth Earl succeeded as fifth Earl of Elgin and thus united the two dignities.’  Burke’s Peerage.  Boswell’s quotation is from Persius, Satires, i. 27:  ’Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter.’  It is the motto to The Spectator, No. 379.

[57] She died four months after her father.  I cannot find that she received this additional fortune.

[58] See ante, ii. 47.

[59] See ante, iv. 5, note 2.

[60] See ante, iii. 231.  Johnson (Works, ix. 33) speaks of ’the general dissatisfaction which is now driving the Highlanders into the other hemisphere.’  This dissatisfaction chiefly arose from the fact that the chiefs were ’gradually degenerating from patriarchal rulers to rapacious landlords.’ Ib. p. 86.  ’That the people may not fly from the increase of rent I know not whether the general good does not require that the landlords be, for a time, restrained in their demands, and kept quiet by pensions proportionate to their loss....  It affords a legislator little self-applause to consider, that where there was formerly an insurrection there is now a wilderness.’ Ib. p. 94.  ’As the world has been let in upon the people, they have heard of happier climates and less arbitrary government.’ Ib. p. 128.

[61] ’To a man that ranges the streets of London, where he is tempted to contrive wants for the pleasure of supplying them, a shop affords no image worthy of attention; but in an island it turns the balance of existence between good and evil.  To live in perpetual want of little things is a state, not indeed of torture, but of constant vexation.  I have in Sky had some difficulty to find ink for a letter; and if a woman breaks her needle, the work is at a stop.’ Ib. p. 127.