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An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, Late Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College and University of
An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie Late Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College and University of Author:James Beattie Title: An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, Late Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen, Including Many of His Original Letters Sir William Forbes General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1806 Original Publisher: Archibald Constable and Co. Notes: Th... more »is is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SECTION I. Fhom Dr Beattie's Birth, In The Year 1735, To His Establishment At Aberdeen, In The Year 1758. James Beattie, LL. D. was born on the 25th October 1735, at Lawrencekirk , at that time an obscure hamlet in the county of Kincardine in Scotland. His father was James Beattie, who, at the same time that he kept a smallretail shop in the village, rented a little farm in the neighbourhood, on which, and on a similar spot about a mile distant, his forefathers, for several generations, had carried on the same useful employment of agriculture. His mother's name was Jean Watson; and they had six children, of whom the youngest was James, the subject of these memoirs. If from this humble line of ancestry Dr Beattie derived no lustre, it may be fairly said, that he incurred no disgrace. For though they were poor, they were honest; and were even distinguished in that neighbourhood for their superior understanding. His father, in particular, is represented as having been a man of a most respectable character, who, by reading, had acquired knowledge superior to what could have been expected in his humble condition. Lawrencekirk, which is situated twenty-eight miles south from Aberdeen, owes its rise, from so slender a beginning, to the rank of a borough of barony (as such small towns are called in Scotland, holding a rank somewhat above that of a...« less