2"he PREFACE. lxxvii licitude that he might perform the fervice of it in a reputable and fuccefsful manner, are expreffed in his diary in very ítrong terms ; which chews how naturally great modefty and great worth dwell together. Such modeft expreffions, and which fpeak fell- diffidence, uttered in converfation, often pafs unheeded, as having very little mean- ing in them, and which are fometimes ufed by the molt petulant and affuming. But to meet with fuch expreffions where a man is communing only with his own heart, can- not but greatly engage the readers affeétion. Some little time after his fettlement in Dub- lin, he married mils Boid, daughter of Mr. yohn Boid of Rathmore near Antrim (a gentle.. man of charaéter and fortune) with whom he lived in all the tendernefs of conjugal affection to his Death. IT appears from the account given of the foregoing part of his life, that Mr. Abernethy was a perfon of great induftry and diligence in the proper labours of his ftation, and very careful in improving his time to the belt purpofes. When he came to Dublin, tho' he was there in that Rage of life in which many think they may be excufed li
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