AN

ACCOUNT

OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS

OF

JAMES BEATTIE, LL. D.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.

OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS

OF

JAMES BEATTIE, LL.D.

LATE PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC IN THE MARISCHAL
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN.

INCLUDING MANY OF HIS ORIGINAL LETTERS.

BY SIR WILLIAM FORBES,

OF PITSLIGO, BART. ONE OF THE EXECUTORS OF DR. BEATTIE.

A NEW EDITION, IN TWO VOLUMES.

"Mihi quidem quanquam est ereptus, vivit tamen, semperque vivet. Virtutem enim
amavi illius viri, quæ extincta non est. Nec mihi soli versatur ante oculos, qui illam
semper in manibus habui, sed etiam posteris erit clara et insignis."
CIC. Lal. De Amic. cap. 27.

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SOLD ALSO BY J. WICKSTEED (SUCCESSOR TO C. BROWN),
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1824.

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THE

LIFE

OF

JAMES BEATTIE, LL. D.

SECTION III. CONTINUED.

As an introduction to the following letter, it may be proper to mention, that, not long after Garrick's celebration of the jubilee at Stratford-upon-Avon, in honour of Shakespeare, in the year 1769, some gentlemen at Edinburgh proposed also to celebrate a jubilee in honour of our countryman, Thomson. But there not appearing a sufficient number of persons of any note to give respectability to such a meeting, the idea was laid aside. A few years afterwards, Mr. Craig, an architect of some merit, who designed the plan of the New Town of Edinburgh, and the hall of the College of Physicians there, a nephew of Thomson's, formed the design of erecting a monument to his memory, at the village of Ednam, on the banks

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