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With a LARGE PREFACE,
Containing the

LIFE of the AUTHOR.

In TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed for D. BROWNE, without Temple-Bar; C. DAVIS, in Holborn; and A. MILLAR, oppofite KatherineStreet in the Strand.

M. DCC, XLVIII.

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PREFA C E.

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Fpublishing the following memoirs should appear to need any apology, no apology could be fufficient: But it is hoped, that upon a perufal of them, they will be found not unacceptable. Indeed life, in fuch a ftation as that in which Mr. Abernethy was placed, cannot furnish those incidents which are moft amufing to the imagination, or which bave great influence upon the state of mankind and public affairs: It is the history of a few only, the great and powerful, that gives entertainment of this kind; but the ingenuous and thinking must be fenfible, that in other ftations the most illuftrious patterns of virtue are often found; and the man who wants to make his beart better, by furveying human nature in all the finishings of virtuous improvement, and the various methods of dif cipline, by which the perfection of it is to

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