An Account of the LIFE and WRITINGS of the EDINBURG H: Printed for ALEXANDER DONALDSON. M. DCC. LXXIV. Tis commonly faid, that the life of a good I writer is beft read in his works; which can fcarce fail to receive à peculiar tincture from his temper, manners, and habits: the diftinguishing character of his mind, his ruling paffion, at least, will there appear undisguised. But however just this obfervation may be; and although we might fafely reft Mr. Thomson's fame, as a good man, as well as a man of genius, on this fole footing; yet the defire which the public always fhews of being more partiVOL. I a |