PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND LOGICK IN THE FIRST VOLUME. EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, LONDON; and MDCCXC. ADVERTISEMENT. TH HESE Volumes contain an Abridgement, and for the most part a very brief one, of a series of Difcourfes, delivered in Marischal College, on Moral Philofophy and Logic. It has long been the author's practice, with a view to affift the memory of his hearers, to make them write Notes of each difcourfe. But as that was neceffarily done in hafte, inaccuracy was unavoidable: and many of them have expreffed their wishes that he would put it in their power to procure correct copies of the whole Summary, a little enlarged in the doctrinal parts, and with the addition of a few illuftrative examples. This is one of his motives to the prefent Publication; which fome are pleafed to think has been too long delayed: and which is become the more excufable, as hundreds of manufcript copies of the Notes, many of them incomplete as well as incorrect, a 2 |