Excerpt from The Monthly Review, or Literary Journal, Enlarged, Vol. 51: From September to December, Inclusive, 1806; With an Appendix It was in the course of this year. 1765. That my acquaintance with Dr. Beattie began. We first met at the house of our mutual friend, Mr. Arbuthnot, in Edinburgh 3 and having occasion to pass tome time that autumn in Aberdeenshire, I renewed my intercourse with him there. As those with whom he chiefly associated at Aber deen were my most intimate friends, we were much together; and that friendship and correspondence took place between us, which I regarded, not only as my pride, but as a source of the purest pleasure 3 and Imay fairly add, that if I am not a better man for the correspond ence and instructive conversation of Dr. Beattie, great will be my condemnation at my last account. 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.