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TO a refined and liberal mind, it muſt, and it has always given great pleaſure to obſerve, the progreſs and advancement of knowledge, and good ſenſe in the lower orders, whoſe leiſure is little, and whoſe acceſs to Books is circumſcribed how much greater ſatisfaction muſt it give, to obſerve that progreſs manifeſted in an age, generally reckoned unfit for mental exertion.

William Miller, the ſubject of the present memoir, and author and compiler of the following tracts and extracts, was born at Pendrich Mill, ſituated at the baſe of the mountain called Dalmiet, near Stirling, on the 9th February, 1800, of creditable and honeſt parents, whoſe ſtraitened circumſtances in the world did not enable them so give their ſon ſuch an