 | Gilbert Wakefield, Henry Mackenzie - 1822 - 614 pages
...Excerpt from a Codicil to Mr DAVID HUME'S Witt, written in kis own hand, and dated 1th August, 1776. " I LEAVE to my friend Mr John Home of Kilduff, ten...ever arose between us concerning temporal matters." * Both were fond of picquet, and they played every evening on the road. Note by DAVID HUME, Esq. Nephew... | |
 | John Home - 1822 - 420 pages
...Excerpt from. a Codicil to Mr DAVID HUME'S Will, written in kis own hand, and dated 7th August, 1776. " I LEAVE to my friend Mr John Home of Kilduff, ten...ever arose between us concerning temporal matters." * Both were fond of picquet, and they played every evening on the road. . Note by DAVID HUME, Esq.... | |
 | James Mitchell - 1825 - 798 pages
...provided that he attests under his hand, signed John Hume, that he has himself alone finished that botlle at two sittings. By this concession, he will at once...ever arose between us concerning temporal matters. '* Mr. Hume's epigram on the enforcement of the high duties on French wines.— " Firm and erect the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 634 pages
...allude to is contained in the following codicil : — ' I leave to my friend, Mr. John Home, of KiMuff, ten dozen of my old claret, at his choice ; and one...The subject of the name has been already mentioned. Thebequest of wine alludes to John Home's partiality to claret, on •which he wrote a well-known epigram,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pages
...of my old claret at his choice, and one single bottle of that other liquor called port. I also leave him six dozen of port, provided that he attests under...he will at once terminate the only two differences thnt ever arose between us concerning temporal matters.' Somewhat akin to this humour was that shewn... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 394 pages
...John Home, of KildufT, ten dozen of my old claret, at his choice; and one single bottle of that ether liquor called port. I also leave to him six dozen...differences that ever arose between us concerning temporal matters."—Vol. i. p. 163. The subject of the name has been already mentioned. The bequest of wine... | |
 | 1827 - 630 pages
...of all the three kingdoms.' — vol. i. pp. 181, 182. We are disposed more to question the taste^of the joke which, in * David Hume's last will, alludes...epigram, when the high duties were enforced against Scotland.* There is much more that is interesting and curious respecting David Hume in this piece of... | |
 | John Kay - 1838 - 466 pages
...I aleo leave to him six dozen of port, provided that he attests, under his hand, signed John Ifume, that he has himself alone finished that bottle at...ever arose between us concerning temporal matters," This writing is preserved, but not entered on record. It is dated 7th August 1776. Mr Hume died on... | |
 | David Hume - 1841 - 90 pages
...friend Mr John Home of Kilduff ten dozen of old claret, at his choice ; and one single hottle of that liquor called port I also leave to him six dozen of...arose between us concerning temporal matters.'— ( Workt of John Home, vol. i. pp. 164. Edinb. 1822, 3 vols. 8vo.) ' As to theport-uine,' says Mr Mackenzie,... | |
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I leave to my friend, Mr. John Home, of Kilduff, ten dozen of my old claret, at his choice ; and one single bottle of that other liquor called port. I also leave to him six dozen of port, provided that he attests under his hand, signed John Hume, that... 
