Chronicles of the Cumming Club and memories of old academy days, MDCCCXLI-MDCCCXLVI . EDINBURGH Printed for the Cumming Club byT. ^ A. Constable at the University Press M DCCC LXXXVIl. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES PRINTED TO THE MEMORY OF JAMES GUMMING C^ts Volume IS INSCRIBED AFFECTION AND GRATITUDE viii AD LECTOREM scavoir ce quil aime ? For my part,says Montaigne, I am a great loverof your white wines. What signi-fies it to the pubHc, says Scaliger, whether he is a lover of white winesor red wines ? For all that, it was the Spectator sconviction that^ how shocking soevera great mans t
Chronicles of the Cumming Club and memories of old academy days, MDCCCXLI-MDCCCXLVI . EDINBURGH Printed for the Cumming Club byT. ^ A. Constable at the University Press M DCCC LXXXVIl. TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES PRINTED TO THE MEMORY OF JAMES GUMMING C^ts Volume IS INSCRIBED AFFECTION AND GRATITUDE viii AD LECTOREM scavoir ce quil aime ? For my part,says Montaigne, I am a great loverof your white wines. What signi-fies it to the pubHc, says Scaliger, whether he is a lover of white winesor red wines ? For all that, it was the Spectator sconviction that^ how shocking soevera great mans talking of himself maybe to his contemporaries, he confessedhe was never better pleased than whenhe found his author take all occasionsof doing justice to himself in the hand-ling of his subject. Such openings ofthe heart, he thought, serve to give aninsight into character. And he usedto add, with scant amiability, There issome little pleasure in discovering the AD LECTOREM ix infirmity of a great man, and seeinghow the opinion he has of himselfagrees with that the world entertainsof him. Now, when a small Society that hashitherto sought the shade steps forwardto break the golde
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