² The Cambridge Guide To Literature In English (Cambridge University Press).

³ Chambers Biographical Dictionary (Edinburgh, 1990).

⁴ See Bagehot's Biographical Studies (1867), p. 254.

⁵ The union of Scotland and England came about in 1707; but, the feelings ran high for years to come, indeed yet, today.

⁶ Cambridge.

⁷ Ibid.

⁸ See Bagehot, op. cit., p. 266-7.

⁹ Chambers.

¹⁰ See Bagehot, op. cit., p. 248.

¹¹ Ibid., p. 264.

¹² The Wealth of Nations.

¹³ Bagehot, p. 266.

¹⁴ Ibid., p. 249.

¹⁵ Ibid., p. 249; a project, I might add, which is now much more likely to be accomplished with the use of computers and hyper-linked text.

¹⁶ Bagehot, op. cit., pp. 249-50.

¹⁷ Heilbroner's Worldly Philosophers, p. 45.

¹⁸ See p. 11.