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.

Lecturer, Smith as, 56

Le Sage, Professor G.L., Geneva, friendship with Smith, 191

Leslie, Sir John, tutor to Smith’s cousin and heir, 412;
  introduced by Smith to Sir Joseph Banks, 413

L’Espinasse, see Espinasse

Library, Smith’s, 327, 439

Lindsay, Professor Hercules, takes Smith’s classes, 42;
  gives up lecturing in Latin, 99

Literary Club, see Club

Literary Society, Glasgow, see Society

Livy, Smith’s opinion of, 367

Lloyd, Captain, reminiscences of Smith in Abbeville, 212

Logan, John, poet, Burke’s visit to, 396;
  Smith’s admiration for, 396;
  introduced by Smith to Andrew Strahan, 396

Lomenie de Brienne, Archbishop of Toulouse, 177

London, Smith’s first visit to, 152;
  Smith’s residence there 1766-67, 252;
  his residence there 1773-76, 262;
  residence there again 1777, 314

Loudon, Earl of, 1

M’Culloch, J.R., on Smith’s failure to foresee French Revolution, 229;
  on Smith’s habit of dictating to amanuensis, 260;
  on Smith’s books, 329

Macdonald, Sir James, in Paris, 174;
  his death, 225

M’Gowan, John, antiquary, 335

Mackenzie, Henry, on Smith’s wealth of conversation, 33, 269;
  his story of “La Roche” and Hume’s religious opinions, 313;
  account of Smith’s last words to his friends, 435

Mackinnon of Mackinnon, letter from Smith to, 380

Mackintosh, Sir James, on the Edinburgh Review, 124;
  remark on Smith, 437

Maclaine, Dr. Archibald, college friend of Smith, 17;
  Smith’s remark about, 17;
  acts in college theatricals, 79

Magee, Archbishop, on suppressed passage in
    Theory of Moral Sentiments about the Atonement, 428

Manifesto of doctrine, Smith’s, in 1755, 62

Market women on Smith, 329

Marseilles, Smith at, 188

Medical degrees, freedom of, 271;
  Smith’s letter to Cullen on, 273

Mickle, translator of Lusiad, takes offence at Smith, 316

Militia question in Poker Club, 135;
  Smith’s views, 137

Millar, David, Smith’s schoolmaster, 5;
  his play, 6

Millar, Professor John, pupil of Smith, 43, 53;
  Jeffrey on, 53;
  on Smith as lecturer, 56

Miller, Sir Thomas, Rector of Glasgow College, 68

Milton’s shorter poems, Smith on, 369

Mirabeau, Marquis de, on state of France, 218

Montagu, Mrs., on beauty of Glasgow, 88;
  on culture of Glasgow merchants, 90

Montesquieu, Smith’s reported book on, 431

Montpellier, Smith at, 181

Moor, Professor James, 99

Moral Philosophy, Smith professor of, 43;
  fees and classes, 49;
  students, 57;
  his parting with them, 170;
  his resignation, 172

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