Page:A Letter to Adam Smith on the Life, Death, and Philosophy of his friend David Hume (1777).djvu/24

 at, and droll upon and his boat ; let us die as foolish and insensible, as much like our brother philosophers, the calves of the field, and the asses of the desart, as we can, for the life of us. But—if such things —as they most certainly —Is it right in you, Sir, to hold up to our view, as "perfectly wise and virtuous", the character and conduct of one, who seems to have been possessed with an incurable antipathy to all that is called ; and who strained every nerve to explode,