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Il Account of Foun DrrspAe, D. D. 
[Read by Mr DALZEL, Dec. 17. 1792] 
F that found judgement, which difcerns what is right and 
wrong, with uncommon acutenefs and precifion; that firm 
adherence to rectitude of conduct, which excites admiration, 
and commands refpe& ; thofe generous and benevolent difpofi- 
tions of heart, and that indefatigable attention and beneficence 
to friends, which produce the moft ardent affection, gratitude, 
and attachment on the part of thofe friends ; that argumenta- 
tive, powerful, and animated eloquence, which comes from the 
heart, and irrefiftibly impreffes on the minds of the hearers, 
the fublime truths of religion and morality; that ardour of 
mind, and thofe fuperior talents, which are reftrained only by 
invincible diffdence and modefty, from informing and pleafing 
mankind by the production of various works of literary ge- 
nius ;—if a character pofleffed of fuch endowments and quali- 
ties as thefe, has any claim to be recorded among the monu- 
ments of men, the memory of the perfon who is the fubject of 
the following narrative, ought not to be fuffered to pafs into 
oblivion. 
Dr Joun DryspAte was born at Kirkaldy, in the county of 
Fife on the 2th day of April 1718; being the third fon of 
the Reverend Mr Joun Dryspace, Minifter of Kirkaldy, and 
_ of ANNE Fercuson, daughter of Witt1am Fercuson, F fq; 
. Provoft, 
