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W 11 I TINGS OF DR. SMITH.

In 175 i, he was elected Profelfor of Logic in theUniverhty ofGlafgow; and, the year following,he was removed to the Profefi'orlhip of Moral Phi-lofophy in the fame Univerfity, upon the deathof Mr. Thomas Craigie, the immediate fuc-ceflor of Dr. Hutcheson. In this fituation, heremained thirteen years; a period he ufed fre-quently to look back to, as the molt ufeful andhappy of his life. It was indeed a fituation in whichhe was eminently fitted to excel, and in -whichthe daily labors of his profeflion were conftantlyrecalling his attention to his favorite purfuits, andfamiliarizing his mind to thofe important fpecula-tions he was afterwards to communicate to theworld. In this view, though it afforded , in themean time, but a very narrow feene for his am-bition , it was probably inftrumental, in no in-confiderable degree, to the future eminence of hisliterary character.

Of Mr. Smith’s leclures while a Profelfor atGlafgow, no part has been preferred, exceptingwhat he himfelf publifhed in the Theory of MoralSentiments and in the Wealth of Nations. TheSociety therefore , I am perfuaded, will liftenwith pleafure to the following fhort account ofthem, for which I am indebted to a gentlemanwho was formerly one of Mr. Smith’s pupils and■who continued till his death to be one of his modintimate and valued friends.