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Collection	GB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
Level	Item
Ref No	MS 30/2/256
Title	Thomas Gordon to James Beattie from Speymouth
Date	20 June 1776
Extent	1 Item
Administrative History	Thomas Gordon [1721- 1784] Minister of Speymouth, Elgin, from 1758. Graduate of king's Wrote An Enquiry into the Power of Ecclesiastics (London 1776) and contributions to Weekly Magazine by 'Urbanus'. Posthumous Plain Sermons on Practical Subjects (1786), as Account of the Author by James Beattie
Description	Glad there is going to be a new edition of Essay on Truth with three additional essays. Gordon has found it difficult to get his own book, 'An Inquiry into the Powers of Ecclesiastics' reviewed. Over twenty years ago he wrote an answer to Hume's essays on necessity and miracles, which he has put into a work of 200 pages. The periodical essays that have appeared under the name of Urbanus for some years would make two small volumes. Has been told a literary degree would be of some importance
Access Status	Open

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