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ingly we find all accounts agree in representing him as 

 a teacher of the very highest order, and his pupils as 

 receiving instruction with a respect approaching to 

 enthusiasm. Even the talents of Hutcheson had failed 

 to recommend these studies to as general and cordial 

 acceptation. The taste for metaphysical and ethical 

 inquiries was greatly increased; discussions of the doc- 

 trines he taught became the favourite occupation in all 

 the literary circles, and formed the subjects of debate in 

 the clubs and societies of the place; even the pecu- 

 liarities of his manner and pronunciation were eagerly 

 caught up and imitated, though there was nothing 

 which he less affected than the graces of delivery, and 

 nothing in which he less excelled; but it seemed like 

 the free and spontaneous tribute to genius and learning 

 which courtly servility had paid to one monarch by 

 assuming his wry neck, and to another by adopting his 

 false grammar,* so that he may perhaps be allowed to 

 have more than any other celebrated teacher of our own 

 times, attained the observance with which the ancient 

 sects cultivated their masters, while his friend and co- 

 adjutor, De Quesnay, in this respect passed all who 

 never actually taught. 



The late eminent Professor Millar, who had been a 

 pupil of Dr. Smith's, and who remained to his death one 

 of his most intimate friends, has given a valuable account 

 of his lectures which Mr. Stewart inserted in his ' Bio- 

 graphical Sketch/ When he taught the Logic Class, he 



* Augustus and Louis XIV. Happily the Roman parasites 

 could not, like the Parisians, bequeath their monarch's deformity, 

 but mon carosse is still French. 



