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The organ is adorned with green and gold. Dr. Johnson gave a shilling extraordinary to the clerk, saying, 'He belongs to an honest church . I put him in mind, that episcopals were but dissenters here; they were only tolerated. The boy took him for a physician . I doubted much which road to take, whether to go by the coast, or by Laurence Kirk and Monboddo. I knew Lord Monboddo and Dr.
We had heard also of Lamarck, and held him to be a kind of French Lord Monboddo; but we knew nothing of his doctrine save through the caricatures promulgated by his opponents, or the misrepresentations of those who had another kind of interest in disparaging him. Dr.
'We agreed pretty well, only we disputed in adjusting the claims of merit between a shopkeeper of London and a savage of the American wildernesses. Our opinions were, I think, maintained on both sides without full conviction; Monboddo declared boldly for the savage, and I, perhaps for that reason, sided with the citizen. Piozzi Letters, i. 115.
Burnett is Lord Monboddo, as Mr. Home was Lord Kames. There is something a little awkward in this; for they are denominated in deeds by their names, with the addition of 'one of the Senators of the College of Justice; and subscribe their Christian and surnames, as James Burnett, Henry Home, even in judicial acts. BOSWELL. See ante, p. 77, note 4.
These groups included such shining lights as Robert Fergusson the poet, and Adam Ferguson the historian and philosopher, Gavin Wilson, Sir Henry Raeburn, David Hume, Erskine, Lords Newton, Gillies, Monboddo, Hailes, Kames, Henry Mackenzie, and the Ploughman Poet himself, who has kept alive the memory of the Crochallans in many a jovial verse like that in which he describes Smellie, the eccentric philosopher and printer:
And there are in Homer such characters of heroes, and combinations of qualities of heroes, that the united powers of mankind ever since have not produced any but what are to be found there. MONBODDO. 'Yet no character is described. JOHNSON. 'No; they all develope themselves.
Lord Monboddo received us at his gate most courteously; pointed to the Douglas arms upon his house, and told us that his great-grandmother was of that family, 'In such houses, said he, 'our ancestors lived, who were better men than we. 'No, no, my lord, said Dr Johnson.
Hardly any man brings greater variety of learning to bear upon his point. MONBODDO. 'He is one of the greatest lights of your church. JOHNSON. 'Why, we are not so sure of his being very friendly to us. He blazes, if you will, but that is not always the steadiest light. Lowth is another bishop who has risen by his learning. Dr Johnson examined young Arthur, Lord Monboddo's son, in Latin.
Here is a man six feet high, and you are angry because he is not seven. Notwithstanding this eloquent Oratio pro Pennantio, which they who have read this gentleman's TOURS, and recollect the Savage and the Shopkeeper at Monboddo will probably impute to the spirit of contradiction.
Johnson, you were not longer at Edinburgh to receive the homage of our men of learning. JOHNSON. 'My lord, I received great respect and great kindness. BOSWELL. 'He goes back to Edinburgh after our tour. We talked of the decrease of learning in Scotland, and of the Muses' Welcome . JOHNSON. 'Learning is much decreased in England, in my remembrance . MONBODDO. 'You, Sir, have lived to see its decrease in England, I its extinction in Scotland. However, I brought him to confess that the High School of Edinburgh did well.
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