Life and Writings of Br. Gregory. 87 



of Baliol College, Oxford, and now in orders : — . 

 John—all now living, except Elizabeth, who 

 died in 1771. 



HIS WORKS. 



I. Comparative View of the State and 

 Faculties of Man with thofe of the Animal 

 World. 



This work was firft read to a private literary 

 fociety at Aberdeen, and without the moft 

 diftant view to publication. Many hints are 

 thrown out in it on fubjcds of confequence, 

 with lefs formality, and more freedom, than 

 if publication had been originally intended. 

 The fize of the book may have fuffered by 

 this circumftancej but the value of the matter 

 has probably been increafed, by a greater dcree 

 of originality, and of variety. The author 

 indulges himfelf in the privileges of an eflayift; ' 

 he touches many interefting fubjefts, but with 

 a mafterly, a bold, yet a judicious hand. This 

 ■ work, like another of great fame, may be called 

 a chain, the links of which are very numerous, 

 and yet all conneded together. We know 

 the author the better for the rapid judgment 

 he pafles, and cannot help admiring the good- 

 nefs of his heart, and the benevolence of his 

 views, which have an obvious diredion to 

 raife the genius, and to mend the heart j and 

 we concur with him in thinking that, " That 



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