Thomas Chalmers : a biographical study . ike wildfire through the country ; were thedarlings of watering-places, were laid in thewindows of inns, and were to be met with inall places of public resort Hazlitt himself wasbewitched. * We remember finding the volume,he continues, in the orchard of the inn at Bur-ford Bridge, near Boxhill, and passing a wholeand very delightful morning in reading it with-out quitting the shade of an apple-tree. Thewits of London, for a moment, had a sensationfrom the Norlan Calvinist. Sir James Mackin-tosh, in the midst of his little boxes of know-ledge, which some
Thomas Chalmers : a biographical study . ike wildfire through the country ; were thedarlings of watering-places, were laid in thewindows of inns, and were to be met with inall places of public resort Hazlitt himself wasbewitched. * We remember finding the volume,he continues, in the orchard of the inn at Bur-ford Bridge, near Boxhill, and passing a wholeand very delightful morning in reading it with-out quitting the shade of an apple-tree. Thewits of London, for a moment, had a sensationfrom the Norlan Calvinist. Sir James Mackin-tosh, in the midst of his little boxes of know-ledge, which some contemporary wag hasdescribed, condescended to sip this new theo-logical elixir; and George Canning, the bright, io6 THOMAS CHALMERS, the flashing—himself by this time the Orpheusof St. Stephens—came under the spell. TheseSermons, there can be no doubt, won forChalmers that fraternization from the literary-world which is so seldom accorded to theo-logians, and lifted him up at once to the platformof British, and even European 3X
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