Excerpt from An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, Vol. 1: Late Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen; Including Many of His Original Letters Keeping in View this rule of Mr Mason's, it is my purpose to give to the world some ac count of the late DR beattie, a man, whose life, if it does not afford many striking inci dents, yet furnishes no unuseful lesson, and no mean incentive, to men of genius, how obscure soever their origin may be, or tin-promising their early prospects; as it shews the degree of cele brity and independence at which they may rea sonably hope to arrive, by the exertion of those talents which they inherit from Nature, and a virtuous conduct in the society in which Provi dence has placed them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.