Beattie had attacked Hume in his Essay on Truth (ante, ii. 201 and v. 29).

It is this singular fascination of language and style which keeps Hume on the list of standard and classic writers, like Pascal, Goldsmith, Voltaire, and Fénelon.

He was entrusted by Hume with the revision of the proof-sheets of the famous History of England.

"Now, Mr. Brolatsky, having worked for Hume for some years, you must have picked up some details as to his business and himself.

He immediately retailed some of the fallacious arguments of Voltaire and Hume against miracles in general.

The surmise of Bacon, grounded upon the error of Speed, is clinched into the positive assertion of Hume as to a popular belief for which there is not the slightest ground.

Hume at length found a pool of fresh water, which provided them with water for themselves and their stock.

Each took with them two men; Sturt going to the north-west, and Hume to the north-east.

He tells the story to Manning in the letter of January 2,1810.Lamb's friend Hume was Joseph Hume of the victualling office, Somerset House, to whom letters from Lamb will be found in Mr. W.C. Hazlitt's Lamb and Hazlitt, 1900.

They even had a portrait of Purtell, which proved him to have been Hume beyond a doubt.

"'Nothing could be learned of the movements of Hume between his arrest on the Baltic and his location here as a dealer in the curiosities of art.

The story, indeed, as it is told by Boswell, is not too trustworthy, for he had it through Hume from Garrick.