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ftudied in the univerfity of St. Andrew’s. 
In profecuting his. patriotic undertakings 
for improving the public economy of his 
country, Str JoHN SINCLAIR has accu- 
mulated, in his Statifiical Account of Scot- 
Jand, more than nine hundred different 
pieces of literary compofition, which ex- 
hibit the talents and knowledge of the 
clergy of the clarch of Scotland in a fin- | 
gularly refpe@table point of view. None 
of all thofe gentlemen who have lately 
laboured to reduce Agricuinre to fy tematic 
art and fcience, fufceptible of being 
taught by rules, and _ fatisfactorily 
explained in books, has deferved more of 
his country than Dr. JAMEs ANDER- 
son.. Dr. RoBpERT ANDERSON has 
honourably diftinguifhed himfelf as the 
editor of a complete and ponderous collec- 
tion of the Works of ibe Briti/b Poets, in 
which the very chaff is carefully preferv- 
ed with the wheat, and by the compofition 
of the Prefaces, biographical and critical, 
included in that colle€tion, which are re- 
markably rich in dates, anecdotes, and 
praifes, and are alfo characterized by 
what may be called, if not a {plendid 
and magnificent copiou{nefs of ftyle, at 
Jeaft a plentiful exuberance of words. 
Mr. ALison, within thefe few years, 
publifhed, with the high approbation of 
the late Dr. Adam Smith, an Effy oz ihe 
Principles of Tajte, in which he feems to 
have almoft fatisfaétorily proved, that 
« nothing material can fuggeft to the human 
mind the ideas of beauty or fublimity, 
etherwife than derivatively, and as a fign, 
natural or artificial, of qualities or acts 
peculiar to mind.” Profeflor DuGALD 
STEWART, in fome interefting pieces of 
biography, in a valuable work upon the 
powers of the human mind, and in the 
very elegant fyllabus of his leétures, has 
written in fuch a manner as to excite the 
higheft expeétations of the future fruits of 
his fiudies, in fuch a manner, as to enfure 
him an high rank in the republic of ler- 
ters, although he fhould never give to the 
world another compofition. Nor is it to be 
forgotten, that Scotland pofiefied in this 
gentleman’s father, Dr. Mazibew Siuart, 
and in Dr. Reberi Simpfon, of Glafgow, 
swo of the moft profuund mathematicians 
that Europe has feen in the courfe of the 
prefent century. In one or two printed 
fermons by Greenfield, there appear, amid 
matter, new even childifhly infipid, now 
breathing almof uachriftian fury againft 
the French and reform, a few pafiages 
fo exquifitely, fo meltingly pathetic, that 
“jt is impoflible nor to regard with efteem 
Progrefs of Literature in Scotland. 
[ Decs 
and kindnefs the man from whofe heart 
and imagination they flowed. 
Several learned printers have likewife 
flourifhed in Scotland in the’courfe of the 
prefent century. rechairn deferves to be 
remembered as the printer of correét edi- 
tions of feveral valuable works. Ruddi- 
man was one of the moft learned and ac- 
curate perfons whofe names adorn the 
annals of the typographic art. ‘The il- 
luftrious brothers, Robert and Andrew 
Foulis, have more than rivalled the fame 
of the Stephenfes and the Elzevirs. Their 
prefs produced to the world none but 
works of merit; the Greek, Latin, and 
Englith claffics. The effort made by 
Robert Foulis to eftablifh, in Glafgow, an 
Academy of Painting, would have done 
honour to the munificence of a fovereign 
prince. Wz141soN was encouraged by the 
Foulifes to bring the art of type-founding 
to that high perfeétion in which he is con- 
feffed to exercife it at prefent. Not 2 
few of their editions were acknowledged 
to be immaculately perfeét. Scorning that 
fordidnefs of mind, which aims only at pri- 
vate emolument, they appear to have ever 
made it their firt ftudy to acquire honour 
to Glafgow, and totheir country, by all the 
undertakings in which they were engaged, 
Hamilion and Neil at Edinburgh, at- 
tempted, in two or=three inftances, with 
great fuccefs, to rival the beauty and ac- 
curacy of the produétions of the Glaf- 
gow prefs. The late Mr. William Szels 
he, of Edinburgh, was a printer of no 
ordinary talents and acquirements ; but 
his eminence was rather as a philofo- 
pher and an elegant writer, than in his 
own peculiar province asa printer. Pa- 
texfon, who lately died in Edinburgh, 
was a printer of confiderable erudition, 
and a great ambition of accuracy. Here 
have been recently. printed by Mun- 
DELL, now printer to the univerfity of 
_Glafgow, editions of the works of Tacitus 
and of Horace, which, for correéinefs and 
for beauty of mechanical execution, de- 
ferves very high praife. ‘Morison, 
printer to the univerfity of St. Andrew’s, 
has likewife publithed new editions of 
Sallvfi and of Horace, which having been 
printed under the infpeétion of the very 
learned profeflor Yoha Hunter, are emi- 
nently corrcét, and are accompanied with 
valuable collections of various readings. 
_A fplendid and accurate folio edition 
of the works of Atjchy/us has alfo pro- 
ceeded, not long fince, from the prefs of 
the younger ANDREW, the fon’ of Ro- 
BERT Fovutis; who is faid to have been 
, unhandfomely 
