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neients. His Origin and Progrefs of Language,” i in 
fix volumes, &vo. contains a-fingular 4yftem, which 
metaphyfics,”’ 
equally novel or erence 
place, and gave the name to ~ 
TORDOUN NES DE, in Biography, a ies 
Scottifh hiftorian, who flourifhed in the fourteenth c 
is work, entitled. ¢ ee hab r all the aes 
which have been made upon ous writers, and the 
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FORDSAND, in Geography, a {mall ifland of Deamark, 
near the coaft of Sletwick | in the German ocean.. N. lat 
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vilege as the Cinque river is navigable for 
mall * ele, four miles N. E. of Canterbury, and 60 E, 
London, 
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FORDYCE, Davin, in Biography, was born at Aber- 
deen in the year 1711, where he received his education, 
rft in the grammar fchool, and then at Marifchal college, 
where he made great proficiency in the Greek language, 
in philofophy, and inthe mathematics. In 1728, when he 
was but feventeen years of age, - was admitted to the 
arts. 
er, 
a congregation in his native country. or fome time 
ia i i n Hopkins, efq. 
who had a regular es vice 
every Sunday in the chapel at ie own houfe. year 
1742 he was chofen profeffor of philofophy in the Mariftha 1 
college at Aberdeen. Here he read le€tures on natural 
hiftory, chronology, Greek and Roman antiquities, and on 
the feveral branches of natural and See Dele philofophy. 
In 1745 and 1748 he dares his ‘* Dialogues concern- 
ing Education ;”’ whic by no ee a fyftematic 
treatife on the fubjedt, pei difcuffions of the principal 
ed as alfo of various queftions 
FOR 
who ve eines tlie highef 
der: = rom his 
ended the career of a man 
nature, and o 
eart, ay extentive ; and hi 
fectin ng.’ This pa ia 
Dr. Ford 
it was publithed by his brother in 1757, who added to the 
defcriptive part twelve charaéters that had a claim to a 
place in it. Gen. Biog. ~ 
Forpyrce, JAMES, younger brother of the pxeceding, 
was born at Aberdeen in 1720. e received his claffical: 
education at the public grammar pepe and purfued the 
ftudies neceflary for a — of the a at ae oa 
coll 
avour of another, to the 
r. Fordyce, yet. i his impreffive delivery, and indefati- 
ga able attention to every part of his minitterial duty, he 
foon changed t their prejudice into efteem, and their efteem 
into admiration. During his refidence.at Alloa he at- 
tracted public notice by the publication of three excel- 
lent fermons, “* On the Eloquence of the Pulpit ;”” « On 
fpirit, 
lemnnity, animation, and feeling, that it is faid to have filled 
his learned fathers and brethren with aftonifhment, and 
juftly raifed him to puede wits eminencé among his clerical 
It wa 
paltor w ; 
of diffente ers at Mon e€ 
and on the death of his colleague, which happened in a few - 
ths, he was eleé&e the fole paftoral office. In this. 
To this he had a juft claim, as well from the elegance of his. 
fon the happy tendency that:his-difeourfes. 
a fhare in king be ng it. 
his auditory. His brother, a banker of very exten 
nefs, was obliged to °P payment, and -his ruin:invelved 
the fortunes and pro f he do&or’s conftant 
perty o y 
oft liberal (apenas ; and though no blame 
. could attach to him on account of his brother’ s- mifcondutt, : 
¥ | yet 
