...Merchistoun, of whom the historian Hume did not hesitate to say that he was the person to whom the title of a great man is more justly due than to any other whom his country has ever produced, and whose name has been so agreeably revived among us of late by the genial and...

...the birthplace of John Napier, the inventor of logarithms, to whom, according to Hume, the title of a great man is more justly due than to any other whom his country ever produced. He was born in 1 550." We give a single anecdote of Napier, as he was regarded by his contemporaries...

...of being a warlock. Hume, in his History of England, says of him, that he was " the person to whom the title of ' Great Man ' is more justly due than to any other whom his country ever produced." In his ' Provincial Antiquities,' Sir Walter Scott refers to a curious contract existing in the charter...

...him, was Lord Napier of Merchiston, son of the famous inventor of the logarithms, the person to whom the title of GREAT MAN is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced. There was in Scotland another party, who, professing equal attachment to the king's service, pretended...

...particular department to which he applied his genius. David Hume pronounced him "the person to whom the title of great man is more justly due than to any other whom his country ever produced."' And Professor Playfair, in his "Dissertation on tho History of Mathematical and Physical Science,"...

...of Merchiston, the inventor of Logarithms, to whom, in Hume's opinion, "the title of a great man was more justly due than to any other whom his country ever produced." A descendant of his house has filled high office in England and in Ireland, where he was born, and...

...Napier of Merchiston, son of the famous inventor of the logarithms, the person to whom ths title of a " great man " is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced. There was in Scotland another party, who, professing equal attachment to the king's service, pretended...

...is kept in the library of Lambeth Palace. David Hume says of Napier that " he is the person to whom the title of great man is more justly due than to any other whom his country has produced." * Duncan Macfarlane, Principal of Glasgow University, was a son of a former minister...

...scholastic uses. Here, in 1550, was born John Napier, " to whom," says David Hume, " the title of a great man is more justly due than to any other whom his country has ever produced." This most people will find it hard to believe, not being conscious of any addition...

...the expressions of the historian Hume) " the celebrated Inventor of Logarithms, the person to whom the title of GREAT MAN is more justly due than to any other whom his country ever produced," —were added as an appendix to a new edition of his Life. I have been induced, however, to publish...