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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... admired as a writer of very supe- rior genius . We had the happiness , too , of possessing in Major Mercer , of whom I shall have occasion to say more hereafter , another early friend , who was equally attached to Dr Beattie by long ...
... admired as a writer of very supe- rior genius . We had the happiness , too , of possessing in Major Mercer , of whom I shall have occasion to say more hereafter , another early friend , who was equally attached to Dr Beattie by long ...
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Sir William Forbes. their complete form and ultimate perfection . Some of the most admired works of those philo- sophers I have mentioned , owed their origin to this literary society , which was held once a fort- night in Aberdeen , on ...
Sir William Forbes. their complete form and ultimate perfection . Some of the most admired works of those philo- sophers I have mentioned , owed their origin to this literary society , which was held once a fort- night in Aberdeen , on ...
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... admired as long as the English language is understood , for that fluent and " graceful energy of expression , which distin- 66 66 guishes all the writings of that poet . In his " compositions , " continues Beattie , " even in those ...
... admired as long as the English language is understood , for that fluent and " graceful energy of expression , which distin- 66 66 guishes all the writings of that poet . In his " compositions , " continues Beattie , " even in those ...
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... admired original in a more conspicuous point of view to the English " reader . " After a declaration so modest on the part of the author , it would not be fair to scrutinize this translation too severely , more especially as it was ...
... admired original in a more conspicuous point of view to the English " reader . " After a declaration so modest on the part of the author , it would not be fair to scrutinize this translation too severely , more especially as it was ...
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... admired about three months ago - I speak not of the present moment , for Ossian just now is all in all - I Homer was lately admired as much as he was three thousand years ago . Will the admiration of our Highland bard be as permanent ...
... admired about three months ago - I speak not of the present moment , for Ossian just now is all in all - I Homer was lately admired as much as he was three thousand years ago . Will the admiration of our Highland bard be as permanent ...
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