Author:James Fordyce

James Fordyce
(1720–1796)

James Fordyce

Works

• 'The Eloquence of the Pulpit,' &c., 1752, 8vo (ordination sermon; often reprinted with David Fordyce's ' Theodorus').
• 'The Temple of Virtue,' &c., 1757, 12mo (by David Fordyce; but this edition has additional matter by James Fordyce).
• ' The Folly … of Unlawful Pleasures,' &c., 1760, 8vo; 2nd edit. Edinb. 1768, 8vo.
• 'Sermons to Young Women,' 1765, 2 vols. 12mo, often reprinted.
• 'The Character and Conduct of the Female Sex,' 1776, 8vo.
• 'Addresses to Young Men,' 1777, 2 vols. 8vo.
• 'Addresses to the Deity,' 1785, 8vo.
• 'Poems,' 1786, 8vo.
• 'A Discourse on Pain,' 1791, 8vo (Chalmers refers to a certain 'cure for the cramp' here given, and connects it with a passage from Beaumont and Fletcher).

• "The Black Eagle"

Works about Fordyce

• "Fordyce, James," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.