mith at, 213

Abercromby, Professor, expected resignation of chair of Law of
Nature, 132

Absence of mind, Smith's, in childhood, 4;
at Glasgow, 60;
exaggerated, 66;
Glasgow anecdote of, 147;
London anecdote, 237;
Dalkeith anecdotes, 245;
Kirkcaldy anecdote, 259;
the story of "La Roche," 314;
Custom House anecdotes, 330;
unobserved by Samuel Rogers, 422

Academy of Dancing, Fencing, and Riding in Glasgow College, 79

Academy of Design, Glasgow, 72;
Smith's interest in, 74

Adam, Robert, architect, schoolfellow of Smith, 7

Adam, William, M.P., Smith's remark on Bentham's
_Defence of Usury_, 422

Addington, H. (Lord Sidmouth), writes an ode to Smith, 406

Alison, Rev. Archibald, effects of Smith's habit of dictating, 261

American Intercourse Bill, Smith's opinion, 385

American question, Smith's views, 281

Anderson, Dr. James, paper to R.S.E., 421

Anderson, Professor John, his classes for working men, 72;
voting for his own appointment to Natural Philosophy chair, 83;
tutorial engagement abroad, 85

Anderston Club, 97

Armed Neutrality, the, Smith on, 382

Astronomy, Smith's history of, 262

Auckland, Lord, _see_ Eden, W.

Bagpipe competition, Smith at, 372;
Professor Saint Pond's description of, 373

Balfour, Colonel Nesbit, 395

Balliol College, Oxford, Smith enters, 18;
state of learning at, 22;
Smith's reading at, 24;
confiscation of Hume's _Treatise_, 24;
treatment of Scotch students, 25;
complaints of Snell exhibitioners, 26;
correspondence between heads of Balliol and Glasgow Colleges, 27

Banks, Sir Joseph, Smith's letter to, 413

Barnard, Dean, verses on Smith and other members of "the club," 268

Barre, Colonel, with Smith at Bordeaux, 179

Beatson, Robert, Smith's letter introducing, 402

Beattie's Minstrel, Smith's opinion of, 368

Beauclerk, Topham, on Smith's conversation, 269

Bellamy, Mrs., invited to open Glasgow theatre, 80;
on beauty of Glasgow, 88

Beneficence, Smith's, 437

Bentham, Jeremy, on state of learning at Oxford, 21;
Smith on his _Defence of Usury_, 422

Berkeley, Mrs. Prebendary, her dinners, 97

Black, Dr. Joseph, professorial losses by light guineas, 49;
Smith's opinion of, 336;
Robison's account of, 336;
appointed Smith's literary executor, 434

Blair, Dr. Hugh, his indebtedness to Smith's lectures on rhetoric, 32;
his preaching, 420;
Smith on, 421

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