ON _I. MORAL SENTIMENTS; II. ASTRONOMICAL INQUIRIES; III. FORMATION OF LANGUAGES; IV. HISTORY OF ANCIENT PHYSICS; V. ANCIENT LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS; VI. THE IMITATIVE ARTS; VII. MUSIC, DANCING, POETRY; VIII. THE EXTERNAL SENSES; IX. ENGLISH AND ITALIAN VERSES._ ADAM SMITH, the author of these Essays and of the 'Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,' was born at Kirkaldy, June 5, 1723, a few months after the death of his father. He was a sickly child, and indulged by his mother, who was the object of his filial gratitude for sixty years. When about three years old, and at the house of Douglass of Strathenry, his mother's brother, he was carried off by tinkers or gipsies…
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