APPENDIX. 37 



II. Account of John Drtsdale, D. D. 

 [Read by MrDjLZEL, Dec. 17. 1792.] 



IF 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 refpect ; thofe generous and benevolent difpofi- 

 tions of heart, and that indefatigable attention and beneficence 

 to friends, which produce the moil 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 reflrained only by 

 invincible diffidence and modefty, from informing and pleating 

 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 John Drysdale was born at Kirkaldy, in the county of 

 Fife on the 29th day of April 1718 ; being the third foil of 

 the Reverend Mr John Drysdale, Minifter of Kirkaldy, and 

 of Anne Ferguson, daughter of William Ferguson, Ffq; 



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