...given us this record : if possible, that which is suggested by his writings. All his faculties were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous, and his predilection...exclusively adapted to that species of composition. I should have pronounced him fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen." Second Winter...

...surprise: "All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous; and his 5 predilection for poetry was rather the result of his...composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced himjo be fitted -to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had.chosejijto 10 exert his abilities." But...

...volitions. Professor Stewart0 says of him, with some surprise: 'All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was 20 rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted...

...the London wits, the queen of Scottish society. Dugald Stewart says that "all the faculties of Burns' mind were, so far as I could judge, equally vigorous,...pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk or ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities." And of his prose compositions the same severe judge...

...Professor Stewart says of him, with some surprise: "All the faculties of Burns 's mind were, as far as I 25 could judge, equally vigorous; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of InVown enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of...