Perseus enucleatus, sive
commentarius
.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v09
Poems on several occasions.
Edinburgh, 1770.
Works. Ed. Grosart, A. B. Edinburgh, 1865. Another edn, ed.
Stephen, W. Paisley, 1895. See, also, Logan, John, below.
Colvill, Robert (d. 1788). Eidyllia; or miscellaneous poems. . . With a hint to
the British poets. Edinburgh, 1757.
The Caledonians: a poem. Edinburgh, 1779.
Savannah, a poem in two cantos. 2nd edn. 1780.
The downfall of the Roman confederacy, or, the ever memorable 12th of
April, 1782. A heroic poem, in three cantos. Edinburgh, 1788.
Poetical works. 1789.
Douglas, Francis (1710? –1790? ). Rural love, a tale in the Scottish dialect.
3
1
**
Aberdeen, 1750.
The birth-day; with a few strictures on the times; a poem in three
cantos. By a farmer. Glasgow, 1782.
See, also, sec. E, Jacobite Literature.
Falconer, William (1732-1767). See bibl. to vol. x, chap. VII, post.
Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754). See part (2), post.
Harvey, John (f. 1729). A collection of miscellany poems and letters,
comical and serious. Edinburgh, 1726.
The life of Robert Bruce, king of Scots: a poem. Edinburgh, 1729.
This was remodelled and reissued, without the author's name, as The
Bruciad. 1769.
Home, John (1724-1808). Douglas: a tragedy. Edinburgh, 1757.
The stir caused by the production of this popular piece led to Home's
resignation of his ministerial charge at Athelstaneford. None of his
subsequent tragedies (Agis, 1758; The siege of Aquileia, 1760; The fatal
discovery, 1769; Alonzo, 1773; Alfred, 1778) met with conspicuous success.
For his history of the Rebellion of 1745, see sec. E, below. His collected
works were ed. by Mackenzie, H. , 3 vols. , 1822.
See, also, Carlyle, Alexander, in sec. D, below.
Lauder, William (d. 1771). Poetarum Scotorum musae sacra. Edinburgh,
1739.
An essay on Milton's use and imitation of the moderns in his Paradise
Lost. 1750. This unconvincing attempt to convict Milton of plagiarism
first appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1747.
A letter to the Rev. Mr Douglas, occasioned by his vindication of Milton.
1751. (A confession of, and apology for, his literary forgery. )
Logan, John (1748-1788). Poems. 1781.
Runnamede, a tragedy. 1783.
Logan's action as editor of the poems of Michael Bruce (see above)
led to a controversy, which centred chiefly round the Ode to the Cuckoo,
and is remarkable more for its longevity than its importance.
Macpherson, James (1738-1796). See bibl. to vol. x, chap. x, post.
Mallet, David (1705 ? -1765). See bibl. to chap. vi, ante.
Thomson, James (1700-1748). See bibl. to vol. x, chap. v, post.
Wilkie, William (1721-1772). The Epigoniad, a poem. Edinburgh, 1757.
Fables (in verse). 1768.
Wilson, John (1720-1789). The Earl of Douglas, a dramatic essay. 1760.
Clyde, a poem. 1764.
1. y
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Barclay, William (15702-1630? ). Nepenthes; or the vertues of tabacco.
Edinburgh, 1614.
Callirhoe, the nymph of Aberdene. Edinburgh, 1615.
The nature . . . of the new found well at Kinghorne. Edinburgh, 1618.
Sylvae tres. Edinburgh, 1619.
Dempster, Thomas (1579? -1625). See vol. vii, pp. 315, 486.
Hume, Alexander (A. 1612). A diduction of the true and catholik meaning
of our Saviour his words, This is my bodie, in the institution of his laste
supper. Edinburgh, 1602.
Grammatica nova. Edinburgh, 1612.
Prima elementa grammatica. Edinburgh, 1612.
Of the orthographie and congruitie of the Britan tongue. Ed. Wheatley,
H. B. Early English Text Society. 1865.
James VI, King of Scotland (1566-1625). The essayes of a prentise in the
divine art of poesie. Edinburgh, 1584.
His Majesties poeticall exercises at vacant houres. Edinburgh, 1591.
Daemonologie. Edinburgh, 1597.
The true lawe of free monarchies. Edinburgh, 1598.
Basilikon doron. Edinburgh, 1599.
A counter blaste to tobacco. 1604.
Workes. 1616.
Makluire, John (f. 1630). The buckler of bodilie health, whereby health
may be defended, and sicknesse repelled. Edinburgh, 1630.
Sanitatis semita. Edinburgh, 1630.
Napier, John, of Merchiston (1550-1617). See vol. iv, p. 508.
Row, John (1598-1672? ). Hebraeae linguae institutiones . . . Xuliás Hebraica:
seu, vocabularium continens praecipuas radices linguae Hebraeae, numero
1000. 2 pts. Glasgow, 1644.
In 1646 the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland recom-
mended to general use this work, which was the first of its kind printed
in Scotland.
Ευχαριστία Βασιλική. Αd illustrissimum monarchum Carolum II. . .
carmen. Aberdeen, 1660.
Urquhart, Sir Thomas (1611-1660). See vol. vii, p. 464.
Wedderburn, David (1580-1646). In obitu summae spei Principis Henrici.
Edinburgh, 1612.
A short introduction to grammar. Aberdeen (1632).
Institutiones grammaticae. Editio secunda. Aberdeen, 1633.
Meditationum campestrium, seu epigrammaton moralium centuriae duae.
Aberdeen, 1643. Centuria tertia. Aberdeen, 1644.
Perseus enucleatus, sive commentarius . . . in Persium. Amsterdam, 1662.
II. (1660-1707)
Balfour, Sir Andrew (1630-1694). Letters writ to a friend: containing
excellent directions and advices for travelling thro' France and Italy.
Edinburgh, 1700.
Brown, Andrew (f. 1700). A vindicatory schedule, concerning the new cure
of fevers. Edinburgh, 1691.
Bellum medicinale; or, the papers written in defence of Dr Brown, his
publication of the new cure of fevers. Edinburgh, 1699.
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559
a
Brown, Andrew. The character of the true public spirit, especially with
relation to the ill condition of a nation, thro’ the prevalency of the privat
spirit, selfish and sinister designs. 1702.
An essay on the new project for a land mint. Edinburgh, 1705.
A scheme proposing a new touch-stone for the due trial of a proper
union betwixt Scotland and England. Edinburgh, 1706.
Crawford, David (1665–1726). Courtship à-la-mode; a comedy. 1700.
Ovidius Britannicus: or, love epistles in imitation of Ovid. 1703.
Love at first sight; a comedy. (1704. )
Memoirs of the affairs of Scotland; containing a full and impartial
account of the revolution in that kingdom begun in 1567. 1706.
Donaldson, James (A. 1713). Husbandry anatomized, or, an enquiry into
the present manner of teiling and manuring the ground in Scotland.
Edinburgh, 1696.
A pick-tooth for swearers; or, a looking-glass for atheists and prophane
persons. Edinburgh, 1698. (In verse. )
The undoubted art of thriving. Edinburgh, 1700.
Considerations in relation to trade considered, and a short view of our
present trade and taxes, compared with what these taxes may amount to
after the Union, &c. , reviewed. 1706.
A letter from Mr Reason, to the high and mighty Prince the Mob. 1706.
(Concerning the Union. )
Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun (1655-1716). See bibl. to chaps. VII and VIII,
sec. III, ante.
Kirk, Robert (16412-1692). Psalma Dhaibhidh an meadrachd, do reir an
phroimhchanamain. Edinburgh, 1684. (The first complete translation
of the Scottish metrical psalms into Gaelic. )
An essay of the nature and actions of the subterranean (and, for the
most part), invisible people, heretofoir going under the name of elves,
faunes, and fairies, or the lyke, among the low-country Scots . . . (1691).
Edinburgh, 1815. Another edn, under its alternative title A Secret
Commonwealth, was published by Lang, A. , in 1893.
Law, John, of Lauriston (1671-1729). Proposals and reasons for constituting
a council of trade. Edinburgh, 1701.
Money and trade considered, with a proposal for supplying the nation
with money. Edinburgh, 1705.
Oeuvres . . . contenant les principes sur le numéraire, le commerce, le
crédit et les banques. Paris, 1790.
Mackaile, Matthew (f. 1657–1696). Fons Moffetensis: seu descriptio topo-
graphico-spagyrica fontium mineralium Moffetensium. Edinburgh, 1659.
An English version was published, also at Edinburgh, in 1664.
The diversitie of salts and spirits maintained. . . Together with a new
system of the order and gradation, in the worlds creation. Aberdeen,
1683.
Terrae prodromus theoricus. Containing, a short account of, Moses
Philosophizans. Or, the old (yet new) and true Scripture theory of the
earth. Aberdeen, 1691.
Mylne, Robert (1643–1747). A Book of Scottish Pasquils, ed. Maidment, J. ,
from a collection by Mylne, R. jun. 1827. (His collections were largely
used in Crawford, G. , History of the Shire of Renfrew. ]
Pitcairne, Archibald (1652–1713). Dissertatio de legibus historiae naturalis.
Edinburgh, 1696. (An attack on Sir Robert Sibbald's Scotia Illustrata. )
The Assembly; a comedy. By a Scots gentleman. 1722.
Babell; a satirical poem on the proceedings of the General Assembly in
the year 1692. Maitland Club, 1830.
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Edinburgh, 1727.
Pitcairne also published several medical dissertations in Latin, which
were gathered together under the title of Dissertationes medicae
(Rotterdam, 1701), and an English translation was afterwards
issued as 'The whole works. ' 3rd edn 1740.
A satire upon Pitcairne appeared in 1695 under the title of Apollo
Mathematicus, according to the principles of Dr Pitcairne. This
tract, which was attributed to Dr Edward Eyzat, led to a lively
controversy in which Dr Charles Oliphant, Dr Andrew Brown,
and Dr George Hepburn took part.
An account of the life and writings of the celebrated Dr Archibald
Pitcairne. By Charles Webster. Edinburgh, 1781.
Sinclair, George (d. 1696). Satan's invisible world discovered; or, a choice
collection of modern relations, proving evidently. . . that there are devils,
witches, and apparitions. Edinburgh, 1685.
Sinclair, who was professor of natural philosophy at Glasgow, also
published works on natural philosophy and mathematics.
Stair, James Dalrymple, Viscount (1619-1695). The institutions of the law
of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1681. Second edn, much enlarged. Edinburgh,
1693.
Physiologia nova experimentalis, in qua generales notiones Aristotelis,
Epicuri, et Cartesii supplentur, errores deteguntur et emendantur.
Leyden, 1686.
A vindication of the divine perfections, illustrating the glory of God in
them by reason and revelation. 1695.
Wallace, James (d. 1688). An account of the islands of Orkney. To which is
added, an essay concerning the Thule of the ancients. Edinburgh, 1693.
III. (1707-1786)
Anderson, James (1739-1808). Essays relating to agriculture and rural
affairs. Edinburgh, 1775.
The interest of Great Britain with regard to her American colonies
considered. 1782.
An account of the present state of the Hebrides and western coasts of
Scotland. Edinburgh, 1785.
The Bee, or literary weekly intelligencer. 18 vols. Edinburgh, 1791-4.
Recreations in agriculture, natural history, arts, and miscellaneous
literature. 6 vols. 1799–1802.
Bell, John (1691-1780). Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to diverse
parts of Asia. 2 vols. Glasgow, 1763.
Blair, Hugh (1718-1800). A critical dissertation on the poems of Ossian.
1763.
Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres. 2 vols. 1783.
Sermons. 5 vols. Edinburgh, 1771-1801.
See, also, bibl. to vol. x, chap. x, post.
Burnett, James. See Monboddo, Lord, below.
Callander, John (d. 1789). Terra australis cognita; or, voyages to the Terra
Australis, or southern hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1766-8.
An essay towards a literal English version of the New Testament in the
Epistle of the Apostle Paul directed to the Ephesians. Glasgow, 1779.
Two ancient Scottish poems: The gaberlunzie-man, and Christ's kirk on
the green. With notes and observations. Edinburgh, 1782.
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Campbell, George (1719-1796). A dissertation on miracles; containing an
examination of the principles advanced by David Hume. Edinburgh,
1762.
The philosophy of rhetoric. 2 vols. 1776.
The four Gospels, translated from the Greek, with preliminary disser-
tations. 2 vols. 1789.
Lectures on ecclesiastical history. Ed. by Keith, G. S. 2 vols. 1800.
Carlyle, Alexander (1722-1805). An argument to prove that the tragedy of
Douglas ought to be publickly burnt by the hands of the hangman.
Edinburgh, 1757. (A satirical tract in defence of Home's Douglas. )
Plain reasons for removing a certain Great Man [Wm Pitt] from his
M—y's presence and councils for ever.
Works. Ed. Grosart, A. B. Edinburgh, 1865. Another edn, ed.
Stephen, W. Paisley, 1895. See, also, Logan, John, below.
Colvill, Robert (d. 1788). Eidyllia; or miscellaneous poems. . . With a hint to
the British poets. Edinburgh, 1757.
The Caledonians: a poem. Edinburgh, 1779.
Savannah, a poem in two cantos. 2nd edn. 1780.
The downfall of the Roman confederacy, or, the ever memorable 12th of
April, 1782. A heroic poem, in three cantos. Edinburgh, 1788.
Poetical works. 1789.
Douglas, Francis (1710? –1790? ). Rural love, a tale in the Scottish dialect.
3
1
**
Aberdeen, 1750.
The birth-day; with a few strictures on the times; a poem in three
cantos. By a farmer. Glasgow, 1782.
See, also, sec. E, Jacobite Literature.
Falconer, William (1732-1767). See bibl. to vol. x, chap. VII, post.
Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754). See part (2), post.
Harvey, John (f. 1729). A collection of miscellany poems and letters,
comical and serious. Edinburgh, 1726.
The life of Robert Bruce, king of Scots: a poem. Edinburgh, 1729.
This was remodelled and reissued, without the author's name, as The
Bruciad. 1769.
Home, John (1724-1808). Douglas: a tragedy. Edinburgh, 1757.
The stir caused by the production of this popular piece led to Home's
resignation of his ministerial charge at Athelstaneford. None of his
subsequent tragedies (Agis, 1758; The siege of Aquileia, 1760; The fatal
discovery, 1769; Alonzo, 1773; Alfred, 1778) met with conspicuous success.
For his history of the Rebellion of 1745, see sec. E, below. His collected
works were ed. by Mackenzie, H. , 3 vols. , 1822.
See, also, Carlyle, Alexander, in sec. D, below.
Lauder, William (d. 1771). Poetarum Scotorum musae sacra. Edinburgh,
1739.
An essay on Milton's use and imitation of the moderns in his Paradise
Lost. 1750. This unconvincing attempt to convict Milton of plagiarism
first appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1747.
A letter to the Rev. Mr Douglas, occasioned by his vindication of Milton.
1751. (A confession of, and apology for, his literary forgery. )
Logan, John (1748-1788). Poems. 1781.
Runnamede, a tragedy. 1783.
Logan's action as editor of the poems of Michael Bruce (see above)
led to a controversy, which centred chiefly round the Ode to the Cuckoo,
and is remarkable more for its longevity than its importance.
Macpherson, James (1738-1796). See bibl. to vol. x, chap. x, post.
Mallet, David (1705 ? -1765). See bibl. to chap. vi, ante.
Thomson, James (1700-1748). See bibl. to vol. x, chap. v, post.
Wilkie, William (1721-1772). The Epigoniad, a poem. Edinburgh, 1757.
Fables (in verse). 1768.
Wilson, John (1720-1789). The Earl of Douglas, a dramatic essay. 1760.
Clyde, a poem. 1764.
1. y
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D. MISCELLANEOUS
I. (1603-1660)
Barclay, William (15702-1630? ). Nepenthes; or the vertues of tabacco.
Edinburgh, 1614.
Callirhoe, the nymph of Aberdene. Edinburgh, 1615.
The nature . . . of the new found well at Kinghorne. Edinburgh, 1618.
Sylvae tres. Edinburgh, 1619.
Dempster, Thomas (1579? -1625). See vol. vii, pp. 315, 486.
Hume, Alexander (A. 1612). A diduction of the true and catholik meaning
of our Saviour his words, This is my bodie, in the institution of his laste
supper. Edinburgh, 1602.
Grammatica nova. Edinburgh, 1612.
Prima elementa grammatica. Edinburgh, 1612.
Of the orthographie and congruitie of the Britan tongue. Ed. Wheatley,
H. B. Early English Text Society. 1865.
James VI, King of Scotland (1566-1625). The essayes of a prentise in the
divine art of poesie. Edinburgh, 1584.
His Majesties poeticall exercises at vacant houres. Edinburgh, 1591.
Daemonologie. Edinburgh, 1597.
The true lawe of free monarchies. Edinburgh, 1598.
Basilikon doron. Edinburgh, 1599.
A counter blaste to tobacco. 1604.
Workes. 1616.
Makluire, John (f. 1630). The buckler of bodilie health, whereby health
may be defended, and sicknesse repelled. Edinburgh, 1630.
Sanitatis semita. Edinburgh, 1630.
Napier, John, of Merchiston (1550-1617). See vol. iv, p. 508.
Row, John (1598-1672? ). Hebraeae linguae institutiones . . . Xuliás Hebraica:
seu, vocabularium continens praecipuas radices linguae Hebraeae, numero
1000. 2 pts. Glasgow, 1644.
In 1646 the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland recom-
mended to general use this work, which was the first of its kind printed
in Scotland.
Ευχαριστία Βασιλική. Αd illustrissimum monarchum Carolum II. . .
carmen. Aberdeen, 1660.
Urquhart, Sir Thomas (1611-1660). See vol. vii, p. 464.
Wedderburn, David (1580-1646). In obitu summae spei Principis Henrici.
Edinburgh, 1612.
A short introduction to grammar. Aberdeen (1632).
Institutiones grammaticae. Editio secunda. Aberdeen, 1633.
Meditationum campestrium, seu epigrammaton moralium centuriae duae.
Aberdeen, 1643. Centuria tertia. Aberdeen, 1644.
Perseus enucleatus, sive commentarius . . . in Persium. Amsterdam, 1662.
II. (1660-1707)
Balfour, Sir Andrew (1630-1694). Letters writ to a friend: containing
excellent directions and advices for travelling thro' France and Italy.
Edinburgh, 1700.
Brown, Andrew (f. 1700). A vindicatory schedule, concerning the new cure
of fevers. Edinburgh, 1691.
Bellum medicinale; or, the papers written in defence of Dr Brown, his
publication of the new cure of fevers. Edinburgh, 1699.
## p. 559 (#583) ############################################
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559
a
Brown, Andrew. The character of the true public spirit, especially with
relation to the ill condition of a nation, thro’ the prevalency of the privat
spirit, selfish and sinister designs. 1702.
An essay on the new project for a land mint. Edinburgh, 1705.
A scheme proposing a new touch-stone for the due trial of a proper
union betwixt Scotland and England. Edinburgh, 1706.
Crawford, David (1665–1726). Courtship à-la-mode; a comedy. 1700.
Ovidius Britannicus: or, love epistles in imitation of Ovid. 1703.
Love at first sight; a comedy. (1704. )
Memoirs of the affairs of Scotland; containing a full and impartial
account of the revolution in that kingdom begun in 1567. 1706.
Donaldson, James (A. 1713). Husbandry anatomized, or, an enquiry into
the present manner of teiling and manuring the ground in Scotland.
Edinburgh, 1696.
A pick-tooth for swearers; or, a looking-glass for atheists and prophane
persons. Edinburgh, 1698. (In verse. )
The undoubted art of thriving. Edinburgh, 1700.
Considerations in relation to trade considered, and a short view of our
present trade and taxes, compared with what these taxes may amount to
after the Union, &c. , reviewed. 1706.
A letter from Mr Reason, to the high and mighty Prince the Mob. 1706.
(Concerning the Union. )
Fletcher, Andrew, of Saltoun (1655-1716). See bibl. to chaps. VII and VIII,
sec. III, ante.
Kirk, Robert (16412-1692). Psalma Dhaibhidh an meadrachd, do reir an
phroimhchanamain. Edinburgh, 1684. (The first complete translation
of the Scottish metrical psalms into Gaelic. )
An essay of the nature and actions of the subterranean (and, for the
most part), invisible people, heretofoir going under the name of elves,
faunes, and fairies, or the lyke, among the low-country Scots . . . (1691).
Edinburgh, 1815. Another edn, under its alternative title A Secret
Commonwealth, was published by Lang, A. , in 1893.
Law, John, of Lauriston (1671-1729). Proposals and reasons for constituting
a council of trade. Edinburgh, 1701.
Money and trade considered, with a proposal for supplying the nation
with money. Edinburgh, 1705.
Oeuvres . . . contenant les principes sur le numéraire, le commerce, le
crédit et les banques. Paris, 1790.
Mackaile, Matthew (f. 1657–1696). Fons Moffetensis: seu descriptio topo-
graphico-spagyrica fontium mineralium Moffetensium. Edinburgh, 1659.
An English version was published, also at Edinburgh, in 1664.
The diversitie of salts and spirits maintained. . . Together with a new
system of the order and gradation, in the worlds creation. Aberdeen,
1683.
Terrae prodromus theoricus. Containing, a short account of, Moses
Philosophizans. Or, the old (yet new) and true Scripture theory of the
earth. Aberdeen, 1691.
Mylne, Robert (1643–1747). A Book of Scottish Pasquils, ed. Maidment, J. ,
from a collection by Mylne, R. jun. 1827. (His collections were largely
used in Crawford, G. , History of the Shire of Renfrew. ]
Pitcairne, Archibald (1652–1713). Dissertatio de legibus historiae naturalis.
Edinburgh, 1696. (An attack on Sir Robert Sibbald's Scotia Illustrata. )
The Assembly; a comedy. By a Scots gentleman. 1722.
Babell; a satirical poem on the proceedings of the General Assembly in
the year 1692. Maitland Club, 1830.
## p. 560 (#584) ############################################
560
Bibliography
Pitcairne, Archibald. Selecta poemata Archibaldi Pitcarnii (et aliorum).
Edinburgh, 1727.
Pitcairne also published several medical dissertations in Latin, which
were gathered together under the title of Dissertationes medicae
(Rotterdam, 1701), and an English translation was afterwards
issued as 'The whole works. ' 3rd edn 1740.
A satire upon Pitcairne appeared in 1695 under the title of Apollo
Mathematicus, according to the principles of Dr Pitcairne. This
tract, which was attributed to Dr Edward Eyzat, led to a lively
controversy in which Dr Charles Oliphant, Dr Andrew Brown,
and Dr George Hepburn took part.
An account of the life and writings of the celebrated Dr Archibald
Pitcairne. By Charles Webster. Edinburgh, 1781.
Sinclair, George (d. 1696). Satan's invisible world discovered; or, a choice
collection of modern relations, proving evidently. . . that there are devils,
witches, and apparitions. Edinburgh, 1685.
Sinclair, who was professor of natural philosophy at Glasgow, also
published works on natural philosophy and mathematics.
Stair, James Dalrymple, Viscount (1619-1695). The institutions of the law
of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1681. Second edn, much enlarged. Edinburgh,
1693.
Physiologia nova experimentalis, in qua generales notiones Aristotelis,
Epicuri, et Cartesii supplentur, errores deteguntur et emendantur.
Leyden, 1686.
A vindication of the divine perfections, illustrating the glory of God in
them by reason and revelation. 1695.
Wallace, James (d. 1688). An account of the islands of Orkney. To which is
added, an essay concerning the Thule of the ancients. Edinburgh, 1693.
III. (1707-1786)
Anderson, James (1739-1808). Essays relating to agriculture and rural
affairs. Edinburgh, 1775.
The interest of Great Britain with regard to her American colonies
considered. 1782.
An account of the present state of the Hebrides and western coasts of
Scotland. Edinburgh, 1785.
The Bee, or literary weekly intelligencer. 18 vols. Edinburgh, 1791-4.
Recreations in agriculture, natural history, arts, and miscellaneous
literature. 6 vols. 1799–1802.
Bell, John (1691-1780). Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to diverse
parts of Asia. 2 vols. Glasgow, 1763.
Blair, Hugh (1718-1800). A critical dissertation on the poems of Ossian.
1763.
Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres. 2 vols. 1783.
Sermons. 5 vols. Edinburgh, 1771-1801.
See, also, bibl. to vol. x, chap. x, post.
Burnett, James. See Monboddo, Lord, below.
Callander, John (d. 1789). Terra australis cognita; or, voyages to the Terra
Australis, or southern hemisphere, during the sixteenth, seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. 3 vols. Edinburgh, 1766-8.
An essay towards a literal English version of the New Testament in the
Epistle of the Apostle Paul directed to the Ephesians. Glasgow, 1779.
Two ancient Scottish poems: The gaberlunzie-man, and Christ's kirk on
the green. With notes and observations. Edinburgh, 1782.
## p. 561 (#585) ############################################
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561
Campbell, George (1719-1796). A dissertation on miracles; containing an
examination of the principles advanced by David Hume. Edinburgh,
1762.
The philosophy of rhetoric. 2 vols. 1776.
The four Gospels, translated from the Greek, with preliminary disser-
tations. 2 vols. 1789.
Lectures on ecclesiastical history. Ed. by Keith, G. S. 2 vols. 1800.
Carlyle, Alexander (1722-1805). An argument to prove that the tragedy of
Douglas ought to be publickly burnt by the hands of the hangman.
Edinburgh, 1757. (A satirical tract in defence of Home's Douglas. )
Plain reasons for removing a certain Great Man [Wm Pitt] from his
M—y's presence and councils for ever.
