John Rae — Life of Adam Smith

[365] "My dear Ascanius" are the words of the text, because Ascanius was the pseudonym under which the Earl happened to be writing.

[366] The Bee, 1791, iii. 166.

[367] Kerr's Memoirs of W. Smellie, i. 295.

[368] The Bee, 1791, iii. 167.

[369] Original letter in Edinburgh University Library.

[370] Stewart's Works, x. 74.

[371] Clayden's Early Life of Samuel Rogers, p. 168.

[372] Memoirs of Sir Samuel Romilly, i. 403.

[373] Cockburn's Memorials of My Own Time, p. 45.

[374] Bonar's Library of Adam Smith, p. xiv.

[375] Playfair's edition of Wealth of Nations, p. xxxiv.

[376] Edinburgh Review, January 1837, p. 473.

[377] Bonar's Library of Adam Smith, p. xxii.