INTERESTING ANECDOTES, MEMOIRS, ALLEGORIES, ESSAY S, AND POETICAL FRAGMENTS, TENDING TO AMUSE THE FANCY, AND INCULCATE MORALITY. BY MR. ADDISON: LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR. 1797, O A COLLECTION OF INTERESTING Anecdotes, Effays, &c. ANECDOTE OF A LATE CELEBRATED PHILOSOPHER and HISTORIAN. HE late David Hume, Efq. (the learned and TH ingenious fubject of the prefent Anecdote,) lived in the New-Town of Edinburgh; between which and the Old-Town, there is a communication, by means of an elegant bridge over a fwamp. Defirous one day to cut his way fhorter, Mr. Hume took it into his head to pafs over a temporary one, which had been erected for general accommodation, B |