Theſe Letters were written to ſerve the beſt purpoſes of Chriſtianity, upon a due conſide ration of the diſtinguiſhed eminence of Mr. Maclaine addreſſed a Series of Letters to that gentleman, publiſhed in a duodecimo volume, in 1777. Upon the occaſion of this publication, Dr. Soame Jenyns' View of the internal Evidence of Chriſtianity. Few publications, upon their firſt appearance, have been more generally read than Mr. A Supplement to the quarto edition, containing the corrections, additional notes and diſſertations which had been added to the octavo edition, was publiſhed by Dr. It experienced a moſt favourable recep tion, and was ſoon reprinted, in ſix volumes, octavo, which is the form in which all the ſubſequent edi tions have been publiſhed. In 1765, his maſterly Tranſlation of Moſheim's Eccleſiaſtical Hiſtory made its firſt appearance, in two volumes, quarto. He publiſhed, ſo long ago as the year 1752, a ſingle Sermon on the Death of the Prince of Orange. This work con tains much excellent and circumſtantial information, related in a ſtrain of impartiality, and in an honeſt unaſſuming manner, which cannot fail to gratify every reader.Ī native of Scotland, and late Miniſter of the Engliſh Church at the Hague. Mackenzie has, ſince that time, pub liſhed a "Sketch of the War with Tippoo Sul taun," in two quarto volumes, which were printed at Calcutta, in 17. to vindicate the fame of Lord Cornwallis, whoſe military conduct had ſuffered certain diſrepectful inſinuations from Colonel Tarleton, and whoſe diſtance from home deprived him of an opportunity of defending him ſelf. Tarleton, in ſome of the moſt conſiderable actions of theſe campaigns, and he animadverts with the greateſt ſeverity upon the Colonel's "Hiſtory." His publication ſeems to have been undertaken from a motive of great generoſity and friendly zeal, viz. Mackenzie was perſon ally concerned, as well as Col. He pub liſhed, in 1787, Strictures on Lieutenant Colonel Tarleton's Hiſtory of the Campaigns in North Ame rica, in 17. He may amuſe him ſelf at the foot of Parnaſſus but to aſcend the ſteeps of the moun tain muſt be the taſk of thoſe, on whom their benignant ſtars have beſtowed the rare gifts of true genius.!!Īn Officer, of a character no leſs honourable in the literary than in the military world. It is probably a firſt work and from the ſpecimen it affords of the talents of its author, we ſhould not be diſpoſed to think that he will ever attain to any great eminence in literature. Macken zie, by a reviewer of the day, upon the appearance of his Man of Feeling. The following is a ſentence which was paſſed upon Mr. But poſſeſſed of theſe, they may boaſt a ſaving principle, and a ſterling excellence in their conformation, which gives them a durable value and will inſure them a laſting eſtimation among the works of taſte. Mackenzie's per formances, neither of theſe publications would have ranked very highly in the claſs of Periodical Pa pers. Indeed, we are of opinion, that without the attraction of Mr. To the Lounger, a periodical paper, afterward publiſhed by the ſame Society, he likewiſe contributed ſome very diſtinguiſhed Eſſays. His nu merous Papers in the Mirror, the firſt production of that Society, have been particularly diſtinguiſhed for their elegance and neatneſs. Mac kenzie, then of the Exchequer in that City, was entruſted with the conduct of the work. In the year 1779, when a ſociety of li terary gentlemen at Edinburgh, came to the reſo lution of publiſhing a Periodical Paper, Mr. Blacklock, which, we belive, have not yetĪppeared. He announced, at the ſame time, the intended pub lication of ſome Sermons and other proſe works, by Dr. Thomas Blacklock, together, with an Eſſay on the Education of the Blind," to which he prefixed a moſt intereſting and elegant Account of the Author's Life and Writings. Mackenzie edited, in 1793, a quarto volume of "Poems by the late Rev. In the dramatic line of com poſition, he has produced the Prince of Tunis, a tragedy, acted at Edinburgh, in 1773, and, we be lieve he altered the Fatal Curioſity of Lillo, as it was repreſented at the Hay Market Theatre. The Novel of Julia de Rubignè, in two volumes, duodecimo, is alſo, we believe, to be at tributed to his pen. In the ſame year he publiſhed, "The Purſuits of Happi neſs," a poem and two years afterward, "The Man of the World," a novel, in two duodecimo volumes. "The Man of Feeling," a novel, his firſt publication, made its appearance in 1771, and was very favourably received. The firſt cha racter which he aſſumed as an author, was that of a ſentimental and pathetic writer, in which he met with conſiderable ſucceſs. A native of Scotland, and a gentleman, whoſe elegance as a writer have juſtly entitled him to the name of the Addiſon of the North.
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