A Critique on the Poems of Robert Burns

by George Gleig

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Published August 24, 2018

About the author

George Gleig FRSE FSA LLD (12 May 1753 – 9 March 1840) was a Scottish minister was bishop of Brechin, and later became Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church.

Gleig became a frequent contributor to various magazines and journals, and he also wrote several articles for the third edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. In 1793, he was then was engaged to edit the remaining six volumes (XIII–XVIII) of the Encyclopaedia. Three of his principal contributions to this work were the articles on ‘Instinct,’ ‘Metaphysics,’ and ‘Theology.’ The two supplementary volumes, which appeared in 1801, he wrote almost unaided.

Father of George Robert Gleig.

Besides various sermons and charges Gleig was the author of:
- Some Account of the Life and Writings of William Robertson … late Principal of the College of Edinburgh, (1812).
- Directions for the Study of Theology in a Series of Letters from a Bishop to his Son on his admission into Holy Orders, 1837.
He also edited
- Jerome Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia, 1789
- Thomas Stackhouse's History of the Holy Bible, 1817