Life of Adam Smith eBook

John Rae (educator)
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 551 pages of information about Life of Adam Smith.

Life of Adam Smith eBook

John Rae (educator)
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 551 pages of information about Life of Adam Smith.
  reception in Paris, 163;
  perplexity where to fix his abode, 195;
  quarrel with Rousseau, 206;
  Smith’s letter on quarrel, 208;
  Smith on his idea of residing in France, 225;
  Smith on his continuing his History, 233;
  appointed by Smith his literary executor, 262;
  letter on Wealth of Nations, 286;
  correspondence with Smith about publication of
    Dialogues on Natural Religion, 296, 299;
  farewell dinner with his friends, 299;
  death, 302;
  Smith on his monument in Calton Cemetery, 302;
  Smith’s letter to Strahan on his death, 304, 307, 311;
  proposal to publish selection from his letters, 309;
  Smith’s objection to this, 310;
  Was Hume a Theist? 313;
  Smith’s opinion of Hume as historian, 368

Hutcheson, Francis, influence over Smith, 11;
  power as lecturer, 11;
  author of phrase, “greatest happiness of greatest number,” 12;
  specific influences on Smith in theology, 13;
  in ethics, 14;
  in political economy, 14;
  taught doctrine of industrial liberty, 15

Hutchinson, Hely, report on free trade for Ireland, 349

Hutton, Dr. James, geologist, 339;
  Smith’s literary executor, 434

India Company, East, Smith on, 242;
  Smith mentioned for supervisorship, 253;
  Smith on Fox’s Bill, 386

Indignation, Smith’s dislike of the man without, 245

Ireland, free trade for, 346;
  discontent in, 347;
  Smith’s letter to Lord-Lieutenant on free trade for, 350;
  Dundas on free trade for, 352;
  Smith’s reply to Dundas’s letter, 353

Jardine, Rev. Dr., a writer in Edinburgh Review, 125

Jeffrey, Francis (Lord), on the Johnson and Smith altercation, 156;
  his opposition to Smith’s election as Rector, 411

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, on Smith’s views of blank verse, 35;
  on Glasgow, 88;
  Dictionary, reviewed by Smith, 121;
  altercation with Smith, 154;
  on Wealth of Nations, 288;
  Smith’s opinion of, 366

Johnstone, William, see Pulteney, Sir W.

Judge Advocate, nature of office, 1

Junius, Smith on authorship of letters by, 420

Kames, Lord, patron of Smith, 31;
  place in literature, 31;
  letter from Smith to, on sympathy, 341

Kay, John, portraits of Smith, 439

Kirkcaldy, inhabitants and industries in last century, 8;
  Smith’s residence 1767-73, 238

Knox, John, bookseller, his plan for improving Scotch Highlands, 408

Laing, David, Smith’s editing Hamilton’s poems, 39

Langton, Bennet, on Smith’s conversation, 268

Languedoc, the States of, 183

Lansdowne, Marquis of, see Shelburne

Lauderdale, Earl of, conversation with Fox on Smith, 289;
  entertains Burke and Smith at Hatton, 389;
  his democratic sentiments in early life, 390

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