. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. ry, and exertion, were sacri-ficed in the prevailing wi-eck of commercial creditwhich overtook him in the midst of his literaryundertakings, by which he was one of the mostremarkable sufferers, and, according to receivednotions of worldly wisdom, little desei-ved to bethe victim. At the time his bankruptcy took place, was meditating a series of publications,which afterwards appeared under the title of Con-stables Miscellany of Original and Selected Works,in L
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. ry, and exertion, were sacri-ficed in the prevailing wi-eck of commercial creditwhich overtook him in the midst of his literaryundertakings, by which he was one of the mostremarkable sufferers, and, according to receivednotions of worldly wisdom, little desei-ved to bethe victim. At the time his bankruptcy took place, was meditating a series of publications,which afterwards appeared under the title of Con-stables Miscellany of Original and Selected Works,in Literature, Art, and Science,—the preciusor ofthat now almost universal system of cheap pub-lishing, which renders the present an era of com-pilation and reprint, rather than of original pro-duction. The Miscellany was his last after its commencement he was attackedwith his former disease, a dropsical complaint;and he died, July 21, 1827, in the fifty-third yearof his age. He left several children by both hismaiTiages. His frame was bulky and corpulent,and his countenance was remarkably pleasing and .^^^. intelligent. The portrait painted by the late SirHenry Kaebum is a most successful likeness ofhim. The preceding woodcut is taken fi-om manners were friendly and conciliating, al-though he was subject to occasional bursts ofanger. He is understood to have left memorialsof the gieat literary and scientific men of his , George, , an eminent minister ofthe church of Scotland, was the second son of theRev. John Cook, professor of moral philosophy inthe university of St. Andrews, who succeeded tothe estate of Newbum in the coimty of Fife, andof Janet Hill, daughter of the Rev. John Hill, min-ister of St. Andrews, Fife, and sister of PrincipalHill. He was born in December 1772, and at aneaily age became a student at the united collegeof St. Salvators and St. Leonards, St. himself to the ministry, after attendingthe divinity hall of S
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