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Printed for D. BROWNE, without Temple-Bar; C. DAV 19, in Holborn; and A. MILLA R, oppofite KatherineStreet in the Strand.

M. DCC, XLVIII.

18-5.1007

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PREFA CE.

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Fpublishing the following memoirs fhould appear to need any apology, no apology could be fufficient: But it is hoped, that upon a perusal 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 most amusing to the imagination, or which have 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 sensible, that in other ftations the moft illuftrious patterns of virtue are often found; and the man who wants to make his heart 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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