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When the Quaker who purchased the property of Mr. Thrale’s brewery, &c., asked Dr. Johnson, who was one of the executors, what it was that he was going to purchase—how many were the brewing tubs, drays, &c. &c. “Sir,” says Johnson, “I cannot enumerate them; but it is of more consequence to you to know that you have the potentiality of growing rich beyond even the dreams of avarice.”

Mr. Burke told me he was well acquainted with David Hume, and that he was a very easy, pleasant, unaffected man, till he went to Paris as secretary to. There the attention paid him by the French belles savants had the effect of making him somewhat of a literary coxcomb.

Mr. Burke said that Hume in compiling his his-