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RETROSPECT of LECTURES delivered in the COLLEGE
of EDINBURGH.

BY ADAM FERGUSON, L. L. D & F. R. S. E.

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Huc enim pertinet, animal hoc providum, fagax, multiplex, acutum, memor, plenum rationis et confilii,
quem vocamus hominem, præclara quadam conditione generatum effe a

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PRINTED FOR A. STRAHAN AND T. CADELL, LONDON,
AND W. CREECH, EDINBURGH,

M DCC XCII.

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THE

OCCASION AND PROGRESS

OF THE

FOLLOWING

WORK.

THE Author was called to the profeffion of moral philofophy in the year 1764; and continued in it twenty years. When he entered on the duties of this office, he did not fet himself at once to compofe a course of lectures, to be read to his pupils; and thus to anticipate the labours of his future life: But, conceiving that difcuffion, and even information, might come with more effect from a person that was making his own highest efforts of difquifition and judgement, than from one that might be languishing while he read, or repeated a lecture previously composed; he determined, while he bestowed his utmost diligence in ftudying the subject, in chufing the order in which it was to be treated, and in preparing himself for every fucceffive step he was to make in his course, to have no more in writing than the heads, or short notes, from which he was to speak; preparing himself however very diligently for every particular day's work.

VOL. I.

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