...singularly fortunate in his society. A kind of literary club, composed of a few select individuals, wag accustomed to meet alternately at each other's house....superior to what most provincial towns are capable of afibrding, men of cultivated understandings, and of great moral worth. By a singular fatality, most...

...club mentioned in Mr. Walker's Memoirs of his father, p. 203, " composed of a few select individuals, accustomed to meet alternately at each other's house." " The members of this club," he adds, " were generally of a description superior to what most provincial towns are capable of affording,...