The works of the Rev. William Thom, late minister ... - waughfamily.ca

LETTERS, TRACTS, Ijft':J57ing read die newfp:ipers, and eager to difplay theirfivill in politics and geography ; but thefe are thing?which learned men needed not to have told the king,nor to have fufpecbed that they fnould be deemed ignorantof them, except they had brought out all theirknowledge.6. The profciTors are made to pray, " that ourgracious Queen and the young Prince of Wales maylive long to enjoy that fecurity and tranquillity whicKhis Majefty's herteficent magnanimity feems to wiflimight be difFufed over all nations j" but not fo muchas a wifh is exprefled that his IMajefty may live to enjoythit tranquillity himfelf. Unmannerly, fhamelefs,black, manifeil proof of forgery f But I flopfhort, inclining to hide, if pofuble, an infinuation of\!a^ bafeft kind, which this impudent forger has couch-Bcd here againft the learned gentlemen.7. Laftjy, Another convincing proof that the aboveaddrefs is fpurious, is its being fo much inferior tothat of the city of Glafgow. Learned men, who areperpetually converfant in books, who read Geddes onthe Compoiition of the Ancients, hear lectures oncompofition in the college, and perufe excellent andincomparable fyftems of rhetoric, kept in-manufcriptfor their own improvement, muft be fuppofed to acquirea correftnefs of tafte and ilyle infinitely beyondwhat can be expelled from merchants, who are almollconftantly in a hurry of bufinefs, and have littletime to acquaint themfelves v/ith the beauties of finewriting •, oil- which account, nobody ought to be furprifed,if, in drawing an addrefs, the former have anevident fuperiovity over the latter. But here juO: thereverfe has happened *, the merchants have far excelledthe learned: The addrefs publiflied in name ofthe learned feminary is a childifli and wretched compofition;in that of the city there is a concifenefs andpropriety of fentiment and expreflion which pleafeexceedingly : A complete deroonflration, oiie fIioui4..