. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. ction;the compass and harmony of his voice, its flexibi-lity, and variety of intonation; the truth withwhich its modulation responded to the impulse of his feelings, and the sympathetic emotions of hisaudience; the clear and perspicuous arrangementof his matter; the swelling and uninterrupted flowof his periods, and the rich stores of ornamentwhich he used to borrow from the literature ofGreece and Rome, of France and England, and tointerweave with his spoken thoughts wit
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. ction;the compass and harmony of his voice, its flexibi-lity, and variety of intonation; the truth withwhich its modulation responded to the impulse of his feelings, and the sympathetic emotions of hisaudience; the clear and perspicuous arrangementof his matter; the swelling and uninterrupted flowof his periods, and the rich stores of ornamentwhich he used to borrow from the literature ofGreece and Rome, of France and England, and tointerweave with his spoken thoughts with themost apposite application, were perfections notpossessed by any of the most celebrated oratorsof the age. His own opinions were maintainedwithout any overweening partiality; his eloquencecame so warm from the heart, was rendered soimpressive by the evidence which it bore of thelove of truth, and was so free from all controver-sial acrimony, that what has been remarked of thepurity of purpose which inspired the speeches ofBrutus, might justly be applied to all that he spokeand wrote. His portrait is subjoined :—. in 1810 he relinquished his professorship, andremoved to Kinneil House, a seat belonging tothe duke of Hamilton, on the banks of the Frithof Forth, where he spout the remainder of hi?days in retirement. He was a member of theAcademies of Sciences at St. Petersburg and Phi-ladelphia, and other learned bodies. He died atEdinburgh, June 11, 1828, and was buried in the STEWART, 520 GENERAL DAVID. Canongate churchyard. A monument to his me-mory stands on the Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Heleft a widow and two children, a son and a daugh-ter, the former of whom, Lieutenant-colonel Mat-thew Stewart, has published an able pamphlet onIndian affairs. His widow, who holds a highplace among the writers of Scottish song, sur-vived her husband ten years, dying July 28, was the sister of the Countess Purgstall, thesubject of Captain Basil Halls Schloss Hainfeld,and of Mr. Ge
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