To live in perpetual want of little
things is a state, not indeed of torture, but of constant vexation. I
have in Sky had some difficulty to find ink for a letter; and if a woman
breaks her needle, the work is at a stop.' _Ib._ p. 127.
[62] 'It was demolished in 1822.' Chambers's _Traditions of Edinburgh_,
i. 215.
[63] 'The Lord reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of
isles be glad thereof.' _Psalms_, xcvii.1.
[64] A brief memoir of Mr. Carre is given in Forbes's _Life of Beattie_,
Appendix Z.
[65] It was his daughter who gave the name to the new street in which
Hume had taken a house by chalking on his wall ST. DAVID STREET. 'Hume's
"lass," judging that it was not meant in honour or reverence, ran into
the house much excited, to tell her master how he was made game of.
"Never mind, lassie," he said; "many a better man has been made a saint
of before."' J.H. Burton's _Hume_, ii. 436.
[66] The House of Lords reversed the decision of the Court of Session in
this cause. See _ante_, ii.50, 230.
[67] Ogden was Woodwardian Professor at Cambridge. The sermons were
published in 1770. Boswell mentions them so often that in Rowlandson's
caricatures of the tour he is commonly represented as having them in his
hand or pocket. See _ante_, iii. 248.
[68] 'Talking of the eminent writers in Queen Anne's reign, Johnson
observed, "I think Dr.
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