GED 
were fubje@, by the apa Peat ae laws 3 and 
found reafoning when he argue the juftice 
and policy of ae all eal difabilities re conicience 
fake. This work deéferves the ae perufal of the liberal 
ead candice ry fe&t. The author has taken large and 
comprehenfive views of his fubj as 3 and a in the Tifeuf. 
ncommon vigour of thought and energ ion. e 
as author of many lighter pieces, poetical and profe. In 
purfuing ay great work Dr ext to hav 
prefented the world with a 
Pfalms ; but during the laft year of his life, his literary 
purfuits were greatly interrupted by a long feries of painful 
affiCtion, yet in every interval of eafe he applied himfelf to 
a work in which as e had alre oS 
printed one hundre four e Pfalins, pre- 
pared completely for the prefs as far as the 118th, when he 
was arrefied by a pain d came? diforder 
7, as a ne ork, b 
his highly al “Friends - Rev. Dr, Difney, and Charles 
tler, efq. 
Dr. Geddes’s difpofition was truly phil sees 
benevolent, and his d vivacity contributed gre to 
the a ae the cee ee in which he mi a. e 
S uous and uniform eee te for ‘uncontrolled 
eedom of « opinion, aud free 
the ftriGeft fenfe of the erorG a aera e C 
his geod will to all or ever hoe and 
des. 
ao ae: a learned Scotch writer, defcended from 
a ieee famil 
a 
3 
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oO 
fa) 
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Nd 
fe) 
ena gone 
through his eee. courfe at fchool, he was transferred 
to = univ ae - ee ee he made confider- 
e proficiency in mat cs and natural el 
the ek of the eae ed ects: 
ot 
For feveral | he practiled at i e e 
bar w 1 and uniformly incre: afing reputation, and 
afforded toting hopes o rifing to eminence in his pro- 
feffion, b ut died - a ge while he was young. His 
Ete his lofs was fincercly la- 
miable, 
'l who ae him. “He retained through life 
that relifh for ancient literature which he had imbibed in his 
youth, and devoted what time he could {pare from the du- 
ties of his bufinefs, and the affairs of his family, to the ttudy 
of the ancient pocts, philofophers, and hiftorians. He was 
author of ¢ ‘An day on the compofition manner of 
writing of the Ancients, Se aad Plato.’? This was 
publithed after his deat it was once intende d to print 
fome of the other r papers - which a left b im. 
Groves, Micnarn, a lear ue w oe Rav 
the fevertecnth and ed centuries. The 
place of his birth are not known, nor is it afcertained where 
wifhed in 
n 
judges ney received him with an aHeAation of civility, and 
GED 
defired him to be feated, but almoft before he coujd accept 
of their offer spe fternly demanded how he dared to a 
or to perform any of the duties of his office in ae city. 
Geddes, aoa upon what ground he ftoo ot to 
be intimidated, he boldly replied that he enjoyed that liberty 
by virtue of an article in the treaty between the 
Lifbon eight years, during which time he had ferved the 
Enghih factory in the ee chaplain, as others had 
done before him. ‘T’o the 
h 
They then firrét] 
i Let- 
abe expe 
eee ed aay Te 7 whor 
the Portuguete were probably excited . ce fen. 
{tate of affairs, Mr. Geddes, finding himfeif no longer of 
ufe to the Engiifh refidents, though it it pra to return 
to his 
1 iva 
ee theic were “ The hiftory of ae uch of r 
from the time of its being difcovered by the Po prapien,t in 
the year 1501, and of the Synod of ge a —- ted 
in the year 1599.” ‘The church hiftory of Ethiopia, in- 
aes an ee : the two great Roman Miffions into 
that empire.’ Council of Trent, no free 
&e. sec - fo oe volumes of «¢ Mifcellaneous T 
eee to fubjects in civil and ecclefiaftical hiftery ; — 
Tracts againft Popery, and the life of «Don Alvaro de 
Bifhop Burnet, who was his pean ond 
was knov 
Q gns of the Stuarts, as a politi a 
managed by falfchocd and cruelt 7 to efta 
pire in the perfons of the popes.’ Burnet’s Hift. o 
formation. 
GEDDINGTON, in Geography, a parifh i in the a 
of Corby, Northamptonthire England, 3 has been formerly 
a place of n i a parliament here 
crufade. Nearly in the centre 
of the village isa flone crofs, which king Edward I. raifed 
to perpetuate the eee of i rege oman This 
ee 
- 
aa ef it are art Hy in * the Archie 
wherein its hiftery 
ther croffes ereéted on the 
— ec? See vol. X. of ae work, under the ie 
‘This village confifts of 152 houfes, which are 
eee by oe inhabitants. Beauties of England a 
Weiles, vol. xi 
ous aaa GEDEROTH, in Ancient Geography. See 
GADAR: 
SEDER, in Geography, atown of Afiatic Turkey, in 
government of Sives; 15 miles S.W. of Am afieh. 
Aas SIE 
CGEDERN, or GEUDERN, atown of oe in the 
county of Konigftein ; 25 miles S.E. of Giefk 
GEDIDE, atown of theArabian Irak, on a. ‘Luphrates 
16 miles S.E. of Bagdad. 7 
GEDIN-. 
the 
See 
