[62] ‘It was demolished in 1822.’  Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh, i. 215.

[63] ’The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.’ Psalms, xcvii.1.

[64] A brief memoir of Mr. Carre is given in Forbes’s Life of Beattie, Appendix Z.

[65] It was his daughter who gave the name to the new street in which Hume had taken a house by chalking on his wall ST. DAVID STREET.  ’Hume’s “lass,” judging that it was not meant in honour or reverence, ran into the house much excited, to tell her master how he was made game of.  “Never mind, lassie,” he said; “many a better man has been made a saint of before."’ J.H.  Burton’s Hume, ii. 436.

[66] The House of Lords reversed the decision of the Court of Session in this cause.  See ante, ii.50, 230.

[67] Ogden was Woodwardian Professor at Cambridge.  The sermons were published in 1770.  Boswell mentions them so often that in Rowlandson’s caricatures of the tour he is commonly represented as having them in his hand or pocket.  See ante, iii. 248.

[68] ’Talking of the eminent writers in Queen Anne’s reign, Johnson observed, “I think Dr. Arbuthnot the first man among them.’” Ante, i. 425.

[69] ’We found that by the interposition of some invisible friend lodgings had been provided for us at the house of one of the professors, whose easy civility quickly made us forget that we were strangers.’ Works, ix. 3.

[70] He is referring to Beattie’s Essay on Truth.  See post, Oct. 1, and ante, ii. 201.

[71] See ante, ii. 443, where Johnson, again speaking of Hume, and perhaps of Gibbon, says:—­’When a man voluntarily engages in an important controversy, he is to do all he can to lessen his antagonist, because authority from personal respect has much weight with most people, and often more than reasoning.’

[72] Johnson, in his Dictionary, calls bubble ‘a cant [slang] word.’

[73] Boswell wrote to Temple in 1768:—­’David [Hume] is really amiable:  I always regret to him his unlucky principles, and he smiles at my faith; but I have a hope which he has not, or pretends not to have.  So who has the best of it, my reverend friend?’ Letters of Boswell, p.151.  Dr. A. Carlyle (Auto. pp. 274-5) says:—­’Mr. Hume gave both elegant dinners and suppers, and the best claret, and, which was best of all, he furnished the entertainment with the most instructive and pleasing conversation, for he assembled whosoever were most knowing and agreeable among either the laity or clergy.  For innocent mirth and agreeable raillery I never knew his match....He took much to the company of the younger clergy, not from a wish to bring them over to his opinions, for he never attempted to overturn any man’s principles, but they best understood his notions, and could furnish him with literary conversation.’