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 THE PORTllAITS OF JOHN KNOX. 801 ' gundy, and was exceedingly gay and entertaining.' And as a footnote Boswell adds : 'Lord Somerville's kindness to me, at a very early ' ing to a young man, fondly ambitious of being dis- ' tinguished for his literary talents ; and by the ' honour of his encouragement made me think well of '.myself, and aspire to deserve it better. He had a ' quiet pleasant gravity, that was exceedingly engag- 'taste.'* The vague guess is that this James, thirteenth Baron Somerville, had somewhere fallen in with an ii. p. 434.
 * man," as he called him, drank his bottle of Bur-
 * Let me here express my grateful remembrance of
 * period. He was the first person of high rank that
 * took particular notice of me in the way most flatter-
 * happy art of communicating his varied knowledge of
 * the world, in short remarks and anecdotes, with a
 * ing. Never shall I forget the hours which I enjoyed
 * with him at his apartments in the Royal Palace of
 * Holyrood House, and at his seat near Edinburgh,
 * which he himself had formed with an elegant
 * Boswell's Life of Johnson, Fitzgerald's edit. (London, 1874),