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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... excellent a judge , and so eminent an ex- ample , of what is most valuable in philo- sophy , poetry , or criticism . I shall only add farther , that I have been scrupulous in not admitting any thing that I thought would viii INTRODUCTION .
... excellent a judge , and so eminent an ex- ample , of what is most valuable in philo- sophy , poetry , or criticism . I shall only add farther , that I have been scrupulous in not admitting any thing that I thought would viii INTRODUCTION .
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... critic has not scrupled to declare it to be superior to the original . * He used , him- self , to tell , that it was from the top of a high hill in the neighbourhood that he first beheld the ocean , the sight of which , he declared ...
... critic has not scrupled to declare it to be superior to the original . * He used , him- self , to tell , that it was from the top of a high hill in the neighbourhood that he first beheld the ocean , the sight of which , he declared ...
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... criticism . And the many valuable works , which issued nearly about the same time from individuals connected with this institution , more particularly the writings of Reid , Campbell , Beattie , Gregory , and Gerard , furnish the best ...
... criticism . And the many valuable works , which issued nearly about the same time from individuals connected with this institution , more particularly the writings of Reid , Campbell , Beattie , Gregory , and Gerard , furnish the best ...
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... criticism , without taking notice , that , however pathetic the account of the lady's mis- fortunes may be , sorrow will not ( I think ) be the prevailing passion in one who peruses it . If I mistake not , indignation at the infernal ...
... criticism , without taking notice , that , however pathetic the account of the lady's mis- fortunes may be , sorrow will not ( I think ) be the prevailing passion in one who peruses it . If I mistake not , indignation at the infernal ...
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... criticism of Dr Beattie's on Richardson's " Clarissa , " written , when a very young man , in a private letter to a friend , with that which he afterwards gave to the world , at the distance of four - and - twenty years , in his " Dis ...
... criticism of Dr Beattie's on Richardson's " Clarissa , " written , when a very young man , in a private letter to a friend , with that which he afterwards gave to the world , at the distance of four - and - twenty years , in his " Dis ...
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