John Wilson doesn’t have many lines in a book. But we will tell you at least that information which we know. He is the eldest clergyman in Boston, a great scholar, a friend of Arthur Dimmesdale, and like most of the people in this profession, and he is a man of kind and genial spirit. This last attribute, however, had been less carefully developed than his intellectual gifts, and was, in truth, rather a matter of shame than self-congratulation with him. He isn’t a very important person in the book. Nevertheless, we feel sympathy for him.
John Wilson in the Essays
Author: Robert Burns