An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D. Late Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen. Including Many of His Original Letters. [With a Portrait.], المجلد 1Arch. Constable and Company, Edinburgh; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, T. Cadell and W. Davies, and John Murray, London., 1807 - 388 من الصفحات |
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... BISHOP OF LONDON , One of his MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL , & c . & c . & c . MY LORD , As soon as I formed the re- solution of attempting to write the Life of Dr Beattie , I determined to request per- mission to inscribe it ...
... BISHOP OF LONDON , One of his MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL , & c . & c . & c . MY LORD , As soon as I formed the re- solution of attempting to write the Life of Dr Beattie , I determined to request per- mission to inscribe it ...
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... Bishop of London . Your Lordship well knew Dr Beattie's merit as a Philosopher and a Poet , and his worth as a Man and a Christian . If in this attempt , therefore , to delineate his character , I am so fortunate as to gain , in any ...
... Bishop of London . Your Lordship well knew Dr Beattie's merit as a Philosopher and a Poet , and his worth as a Man and a Christian . If in this attempt , therefore , to delineate his character , I am so fortunate as to gain , in any ...
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... Bishop of Down and Connor ; and Dr Stewart , professor of mathema- tics in Marischal college . To these were after- wards added , Dr Gerard , * Dr George Skene , phy- sician and professor of natural philosophy in the same university ...
... Bishop of Down and Connor ; and Dr Stewart , professor of mathema- tics in Marischal college . To these were after- wards added , Dr Gerard , * Dr George Skene , phy- sician and professor of natural philosophy in the same university ...
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... , of Job , or the Song of Solomon , that possessed all the pathos , and simplicity , and sublimity of our prose trans- * The present Lord Bishop of Worcester . lation ? The motley mixture of antique and mo- dish 68 LIFE OF DR BEATTIE .
... , of Job , or the Song of Solomon , that possessed all the pathos , and simplicity , and sublimity of our prose trans- * The present Lord Bishop of Worcester . lation ? The motley mixture of antique and mo- dish 68 LIFE OF DR BEATTIE .
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... bishop Laud , as well as other passages that might be cited , are proofs of a masterly genius , which must place Mr Hume in the first and most dis- tinguished rank of writers of history in the Eng- lish language . He had published ...
... bishop Laud , as well as other passages that might be cited , are proofs of a masterly genius , which must place Mr Hume in the first and most dis- tinguished rank of writers of history in the Eng- lish language . He had published ...
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