Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . t capital. After his returnhome in 1766, he retired to his native town of Kirkaldy, and taking up hisabode in the house of his mother, spent the next ten years in seclusion andhard study. The result was the publication, in the year 1776, of his celebra-ted work, Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. They still,
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . t capital. After his returnhome in 1766, he retired to his native town of Kirkaldy, and taking up hisabode in the house of his mother, spent the next ten years in seclusion andhard study. The result was the publication, in the year 1776, of his celebra-ted work, Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. They still, we believe, show at Kirkaldy the room in Smiths house in whichthe Wealth of Nations was written, with the impression left upon the wallby the head of the philosopher as he used to lean back in his chair, buried inprofound thought. Though but a simple memorial, it is one of which his towns-men are proud. In 1778, through the interest of the duke of Buccleuch, Smithwas appointed to the lucrative office of commissioner of the customs, in conse-quence of which he removed with his mother to Edinburgh, and there hespent the remainder of his life in comfon and affluence. He died on the 8th of July, 1790, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. 300 WILLIAM WILLIAM MOULTRIE. WILLIAM MOULTRIE, major-general of the United States army during theRevolution, was born in the year 1725. With his early history we are entirelyunacquainted. About the year 1761, however, when our frontiers were contin-ually suffering under Indian aggressions and difficulties, he was the captain ofa company of provincials of South Carolina, who proceeded against the Cher-okees. Soon after the first meeting of the provincial Congress, when our relationswith Great Britain were of that unpromising nature which required us to placeourselves on the defensive, two regiments were ordered to be raised in SouthCarolina, of five hundred men each, with which Moultrie was in some wayconnected. On the 17th of June, 1775
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