NOW COLLECTED INTO ONE VOLUME, WITH SOME ADDITIONAL NOTES.

BY

DUGALD STEWART, Esq. F. R. S. EDIN.

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PREFACE.

THE three Memoirs contained in this Volume, were written in compliance with a practice, which, after the example of some foreign Academies, the founders of the Royal Society of Edinburgh were anxious to introduce at the time of its first establishment. In forming this design, they indulged the hope of being able, not only to preserve, in their Transactions, such notices with respect to the lives of their more distinguished Colleagues, as might be of use to future Biographers; but to record, while facts were yet recent, and recollections lively, the impressions which their characters and manners had left on the memory of their surviving friends. A Portrait executed in these circumstances, might, they thought, even if it should exhibit nothing but a faithful Outline, prevent, at a more distant period, those miscon