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He then decided to take as a gardener, out-of-door workman, and occasional boatman, a Highlander of the name of Dugald, whom he had employed sometimes in the latter capacity, for he knew something of boats, having been formerly a fisherman.
After he had left Edinburgh, Lord John wrote some glowing lines about Dugald Stewart, which follow afar off, it must be admitted the style of Pope. We have only space to quote a snatch: 'Twas he gave laws to fancy, grace to thought, Taught virtue's laws, and practised what he taught. Intellectual stimulus came to him through another channel.
In the High Street we visit the house where John Knox, the great Scottish reformer, lived. Close by, in White Horse Close, is the inn where Dr. Johnson lodged in 1773, while in the churchyard hard by are the graves of Adam Smith and Dugald Stewart. It is not possible to feel indifferent to such associations. No grander figure can be found in the history of the Reformation than that of John Knox.
The definition of a science must, indeed, be placed among that class of truths which Dugald Stewart had in view, when he observed that the first principles of all sciences belong to the philosophy of the human mind.
He was a friend of Sir Walter Scott, Lockhart, Dugald Stewart, Mme. de Staël, Byron, Moore, Campbell, Rogers, Crabbe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Talleyrand, Sydney Smith, Macaulay, Hallam, Mackintosh, Malthus, Erskine, Humboldt, Schlegel, Canova, Sir Humphry Davy, Joanna Baillie, Lord and Lady Holland, and many other distinguished persons whose names would occupy a column.
He looked up with a start, and perceived Dugald, his jailor, gazing upon him with an expression of indescribable sagacity. "The master will be sending me with his car to tell the folks at Hechnahoul," added Dugald. Still the Baron failed to comprehend the exchange of favors suggested by his jailor's sympathetic voice. "Go, zen!" he muttered, and bent his head.
Dugald; and she was about to be arraigned upon several charges, the lightest one of which, if proved, would consign her to penal servitude for years. The world had got wind of this trial, and hence the great crowd that blocked up every approach to the courthouse. Two policemen had to clear a way for the carriage containing the witnesses for the prosecution to draw up.
The broken leg had been cleverly set by Dugald somehow in the late upheaval Miss and Mister had dropped quite out of our vocabularies with Cuthbert as surgeon's assistant and me holding the chloroform to the patient's nose. There was the fatigue and reaction from excitement which everybody felt, and Peter's diary to be read, and golden dreams to be indulged.
He worked at the Analysis during several successive vacations, up to the year 1829, when it was published, and allowed me to read the manuscript, portion by portion, as it advanced. The other principal English writers on mental philosophy I read as I felt inclined, particularly Berkeley, Hume's Essays, Reid, Dugald Stewart and Brown on Cause and Effect.
In vain the sigh, in rain the tear, Compassion never enters here; But justice clanks the iron chain And calls forth shame, remorse, and pain. Anon The same carriage that brought Lord Vincent and Mrs. Dugald to the town hall conveyed them from that place to the county jail.
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