The first impression was exhausted in a few days, and a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand.

The wiser few were as warm in their eulogies as the general public.

Hume declared that if he had not been personally acquainted with the author, he should have been surprised by such a performance coming from any Englishman in that age.

Dr.Robertson, Adam Ferguson, and Horace Walpole joined in the chorus.

Walpole betrays an amusing mixture of admiration and pique at not having found the author out before.