Reminiscences . LORD LORD JEFFREY OF FRANCIS JEFFREY, HON. LORD JEFFREY, THE LAW-YER AND REVIewER. Mentone : January 3, 1867. Few sights have been more impressive to me than thesudden one I had of the Outer House in ParhamentSquare, Edinburgh, on the evening of November 9, 1809,some hours after my arrival in that city for the first had walked some twenty miles that day, the thirdday of our journey from Ecclefechan ; my companion oneTom Small, who had already been to college lastyear, and was thought to be a safe guide and guardian tome. He was some years older than myself, ha
Reminiscences . LORD LORD JEFFREY OF FRANCIS JEFFREY, HON. LORD JEFFREY, THE LAW-YER AND REVIewER. Mentone : January 3, 1867. Few sights have been more impressive to me than thesudden one I had of the Outer House in ParhamentSquare, Edinburgh, on the evening of November 9, 1809,some hours after my arrival in that city for the first had walked some twenty miles that day, the thirdday of our journey from Ecclefechan ; my companion oneTom Small, who had already been to college lastyear, and was thought to be a safe guide and guardian tome. He was some years older than myself, had been atschool along with me, though never in my class. A veryinnocent, conceited, insignificant but strict-minded ortho-dox creature, for whom, knowing him to be of no scholar-ship or strength of judgment, I had privately very smallrespect, though civilly following him about in things heknew better than I. As in the streets of Edinburgh, forexample, on my first evening there ! On our journeythither he had been wearisome, far
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