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Memoirs of the Young Scottish Scholar James Beattie
The memoir recounts James Beattie born about 1768 who excelled in study and religion. He learned Latin at eight, mastered seven books of Virgil by rote, entered Marischal College at thirteen, and became assistant professor of moral philosophy and logic by nineteen. He died November 1790 aged about 22, leaving a portrait of piety, cheerfulness, charity, and broad Christian conscience.
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Marischal College
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