...conversation than he had ever done in company. He was passionately fond of the beauties of nature; and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a...the happiness and the worth which they contained." * The view which excited the sympathies of the poet and philosopher, is now much altered by the very...

...conversation than he had ever done in company. He was passionately fond of the beauties of nature; and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a...the happiness and the worth which they contained. I do not recollect whether it appears or not from any of your letters to me, that you had ever seen...

...these circumstances. "He was passionately fond, (says Dugald Stewart,) of the beauties of nature ; and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a...the happiness and the worth which they contained."* While, therefore, we do not hesitate to assert the utility of the imagination and the adaptedness of...

...the distant prospect, including both shores of the Frith of Forth, the poet ingenuously remarked " that the sight of so many smoking cottages gave a...the happiness and the worth which they contained." And it is even so ; for, in looking forward to the period when these cottages may be exposed to all...

...virtuous and intelligent peasantry of Scotland. ' I recollect' once he told me,' says Professor Stewart, 'when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of...the happiness and the worth which they contained.' With such impressions as these upon his mind, he has succeeded in delineating a charming picture of...

...says Professor Stewart, ' when I was admiring a distantprospectinoneofourmorning walks, that the eight eathers ; With such impressions as these upon his mind, he has succeeded in delineating a charming picture of...

...these circumstances. "He was passionately fond," says Dugald Stewart, " of the beauties of nature ; and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a...the happiness and the worth which they contained."* — While, therefore, we do not hesitate to assert the utility of the imagination and the adaptedness...

...Professor Stewart, " of the beauties of nature; and I recollect he once told me, when I was admiring the distant prospect in one of our morning walks, that...the happiness and the worth which they contained." It appears to us that the example of such a family as the Burnses — not a fiction but a fact —...

...in Dugald Stewart's description of the poet. " I recollect once he told me," says the Professor, " when I was admiring a distant prospect in one of our...witnessed, like himself, the happiness and the worth they contained." These dozen words, fulling upon us all at once, surprise the tears to our eyes. What...

...conversation, than he had ever done in company. He was passionately fond of the heauties of nature ; and I recollect once he told me, when I was admiring a...the happiness and the worth which they contained. " In his political principles he was then a Jacohite ; which was perhaps owing partly to this, that...