lar passages, to which his attention has been directed by his friends, he has not read a hundred pages in Hume's history during the last eight years. If the reason be asked, it was because he wished to preclude the possibility of imitation, and to stamp on his own work the features of originality.
"To many readers these remarks may appear superfluous. They were thought owing, not to the weight of the objections themselves, but to the merited celebrity of the publication, into which those objections had found ad