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Mr Expuinston with the most grateful and affectionate regard. 
He continued ever afterwards occasionally to correspond with 
him ; and so little did the lapse of time, or the business of ma- 
ture life, diminish the remembrance of early obligations, that 
when Mr Expurnsron died, he had the satisfaction of associa- 
ting himself, with his respectable widow, in erecting, in the 
church-yard of Battersea, a monument to his memory. 
In the close of the year 1765, Mr Tyruer entered the Uni- 
versity of Edinburgh, and upon a new field of knowledge and 
of study. 
The profession to which his own disposition, and the wishes 
of his father inclined him, was that of the Law; the profes- 
sion, of all others connected with literature, most.attractive to . 
the ambition of a young man, both by the variety of powers 
which it demands, and the importance of the distinctions to 
which it leads. It was to this end, accordingly, that his stu- 
dies were now chiefly directed ; and although he attended the 
lectures of Mr Russet upon Natural Philosophy, and of Dr 
Brack upon Chemistry, yet he seems to have limited himself 
to a general knowledge upon the subject. of physical science, 
and to have reserved the vigour of his attention for those clas- 
ses that more immediately related to his future profession. 
While he was pursuing, therefore, the study of Civil Law, un- 
der the tuition of Dr Dicx, and afterwards of Municipal Law, 
under that of Mr Wanxzack, he followed with interest the use- 
ful and perspicuous prelections of Dr Srevenson in the science 
of Logic: he improved his taste by the celebrated lectures 
which Dr Buarr was then delivering upon the subject of Rhe- 
toric and Belles Lettres ; and he listened with ardour to that 
memorable course of Mixa Science, in which Dr Fereuson il- 
Justrated, with congenial power, the various systems of ancient 
philosophy,. 
