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I am afraid a ftyle of life and manners has become in fome de- Account of Lori 



Abercromby. 



gree fafhionable, which deftroys this honourable diftindtion ; 

 which degrades the higher ranks by vices and follies that nfed 

 to be a reproach to the leaft worthy among the lower ; in which 

 name and ftation fancflify grolTnefs in pleafnre and coarfnefs jn 

 demeanour, and wealth fhoots out into caprice and abfurdity, 

 inflead of expanding into generolity and ufefulnefs. 



The Society will pardon this digreffion, which I confefs ta 

 be unneceflary, and to fome may appear ungracious j they will 

 forgive it to him who, looking from the tomb of his friend on 

 the world he has left, with that gentler mifanthropy (if it Ihall 

 be thought to merit that term) which is made up rather of re- 

 grets than of refentments, naturally enough indulges in an ag- 

 gravation of what he has loft, and, it may be, in an unfavour- 

 able eftlmate of what remains for him to enjoy. 



Independently, however, of the eftimation of friendlliip, it 

 may certainly be affirmed, that in the death of Lord Aber- 

 cromby fociety has fuftained a lofs of no light nor common 

 kind ; a lofs which his friends and acquaintance will long and 

 deeply lament ; and which, without difparagement to the vir- 

 tues or the abilities of his furvivers, will not be ealily repaired 

 to the public. 



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