THE ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW AND MAGAZINE, en, Monthly Political and Literary Censor, FROM SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER (INCLUSIVE,) -1803- WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING AN AMPLE REVIEW OF FOREIGN LITERATURE. PRODESSE ET DELECTARE. VOL. XVI. LONDON: Printed, for the Proprietors, by J HALES, at the Anti-Jacobin Prefs, AND PUBLISHED AT THE ANTI-JACOBIN OFFICE, NO. 22, OLD BOSWELL-COURT, STRAND, Account of the Life and Writings of Thomas Reid, D. D. F. R. S. the production of a man of genius and erudition, defcribing another man of genius and erudition who purfued a different courfe from himself. In the work before us, he exhibits a mind which was exercifed in fimilar purfuits with his own; between whom and him there was not merely the fympathy of fuperior talents; but also the coincidence of intellectual habits. The author was extremely intimate with the fubject of his biography; and, as his own writings have fhewn, profoundly converfant with his writings; which, as he was thoroughly competent to comprehend, he was one of the first justly to appreciate. The life of a contemplative philofopher is, in its nature, devoid of materials which often conftitute the most prominent parts of biography. This want our author acknowledges in his introductory paragraph. "The life," he fays, "of which I am now to prefent to the Royal S ciety a fhort account, although it fixed an æra in the hiftory of modern philofophy, was uncommonly barren of thofe incidents which furnith mr. terials for biography ;-ftrenuously devoted to truth, to virtue, and to the NO. LXII. VOL. XVI. B be.t |