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Dr. ADAM SMITH.
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should be rung in their ears, till succeeded by the last trumpet.
And now, Sir, will you give me leave to ask you a few questions? Why all this hurry and bustle, this eagerness to gratify the pretended impatience of "the Public[1]," and satisfy it, that our philosopher lived and died perfectly composed and easy? Was there, then, any suspicion, in Scotland, that he might not, at times, be quite so composed and easy as he should have been? Was there any particular book ever written against him, that shook his system to pieces about his ears, and re-
- ↑ Preface to Life, &c.
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