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    BIOGRAPHY & HISTORY ,

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    A Letter of thc ^ late Rev . Dr . James Fordyce ^ to his Brother in London , on the Death of Professor David Fordyce ^ with a biographical Notice , by Dr . Toulmin . Birmingham , April 6 , 1812 , Sir , The name of Fordyce can scarcely be unknown to any of your numerous readers ; as in the memory of many of them , it was that of several eminent men , who

    by their talents and fame , in the different departments © f medicine and theology , gave a lustre to it . The letter which offers itself , with this , for a place in your miscellany , cannot fail to be interesting , as it came from the pen of one , and refers to the death of another

    of those gentlemen who bore the name . He who transmits it to you j was allowed , as far as he recollects , ' to transcribe it from a copy in the hands of a fellow ' student , at the beginning of his academical course ; when the writer

    of it had preached , on his visits to London , with distinguished popularity , to crowded audiences : and this letter was handed about , in sottve private circles , as a curious rri 6 jft 5 $ 8 fti deriving interest from its siibject and sentiments , and

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    the celebrity of the preacher who dictated it . It exhibits , indeed ^ jfn example of Christian fortitude in the immediate view of death * that claims admiration : and it affords a specimen of an elevated resignation ^ that is edifying and pleasing . Should you , Sir , look on it with these sentiments , you will be inclined to give it to the public , and to preserve it in your Repository . If you judge other- * wise of it you will let it rest witfe yourself .

    The title of it explains the afflicting event which occasioned it * Dr . James Forcjyee , the writer * and Professor David Fordyce , were the sons of Provost Fordyce of Aberdeen , and both received their education at the Marischal

    college of that city . The Prcn fessor was born in 17 * 1 : the Doctor in 172 O * In 175 O the Professor , who had been elected in 1742 , to the philosophy chair of the Marischal college , made & tour on the continent , to examine the remains of ancient art at

    Rome ; on bis return lo hjs native country , m the following year , when his talents aiwj learning had raised the highest expectations ^ he lost hia life in a storm on the coast . of Holland . Hi * " Bia-

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    No . LXXV 1 II . JUNE . [ Vol VII .

    Biography & History ,

    BIOGRAPHY & HISTORY ,

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    THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1812, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1749/page/1/