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DUGALD BUCHANAN.
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people were gathered together before His throne; that He
seperated them into two companies, the one on His right
hand, the other on His left; and that I saw myself, along
with others, sentenced to everlasting burnings. I always
saw myself entering into the flames, and so would
instantly awake in great fear and trembling. These
dreams continued for about two years, so frequent that
scarcely a month passed by in which I had not some such
dream, and subsequently became so very frequent that I
did not regard them. At last, however, they ceased, and
I was no more troubled with them. This was about the
ninth year of my age.”
It is told of Buchanan that when in Edinburgh super¬
intending the printing of the Gaelic translation of the
New Testament, he became acquainted with several of
the distinguished men of that city,—amongst others with
David Hume, who asked the poet to his house. When
Buchanan called he found the philosopher for a moment
engaged, so he sat down, and while waiting for his host
took up a book and began to read. The book was a
volume of Shakespeare, and the place where Buchanan
read was in “ The Tempest.” When Hume entered he
asked his visitor what he had been reading, no doubt
feeling curious to know what choice of book such a man
would make, or what opinion he would form of an English
classic. Buchanan told him, and pointed to those
celebrated lines:—
“ And, like the baseless fabric of this vision.
The cloud capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,—
Yea, all which it inherit shall dissolve ;
And. like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind.”
Hume asked him if he thought he had "ever read anything
so sublime before! Buchanan declared he had, and while
admiring these lines he professed there was a book in his
house which contained a somewhat similar passage, but
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