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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... heart , and the soundness of his judgment , than any laboured character of him that could possibly be drawn . This mode of printing the letters of men of eminence to their private friends , which of course were never meant to meet the ...
... heart , and the soundness of his judgment , than any laboured character of him that could possibly be drawn . This mode of printing the letters of men of eminence to their private friends , which of course were never meant to meet the ...
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... heart of the writers , and the collections of such men as Edmund Curl , into which every thing is indiscriminately admitted , whether having merit or not , because it bears the name of the eminent literary characters of his day ? I ...
... heart of the writers , and the collections of such men as Edmund Curl , into which every thing is indiscriminately admitted , whether having merit or not , because it bears the name of the eminent literary characters of his day ? I ...
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... heart as a man , and his merit as a philosopher . He possess- ed an elegant taste , and an intimate acquaintance with the world . He was , moreover , a person of much piety , and a Chris- tian in the best sense of the word . Of manners ...
... heart as a man , and his merit as a philosopher . He possess- ed an elegant taste , and an intimate acquaintance with the world . He was , moreover , a person of much piety , and a Chris- tian in the best sense of the word . Of manners ...
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... heart , and with the particular emotions that arise in it on particular occasions . The fervour where- with he recommends religion and virtue , inti- mates that he is truly in earnest , and that his heart goes along with his pen . " On ...
... heart , and with the particular emotions that arise in it on particular occasions . The fervour where- with he recommends religion and virtue , inti- mates that he is truly in earnest , and that his heart goes along with his pen . " On ...
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... heart was not so . She owns , she was conceited and puffed up in her happy days , and not entirely proof against the suggestions of chagrin and despondency in her adversity . If , then , her character be perfect , we must call it ( as ...
... heart was not so . She owns , she was conceited and puffed up in her happy days , and not entirely proof against the suggestions of chagrin and despondency in her adversity . If , then , her character be perfect , we must call it ( as ...
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