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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الصفحة viii
... interesting , I am very far from wishing to affirm ; but I trust that many will be found of no inconsiderable value , as containing the opinions , on lite- rary subjects , of one who was himself so excellent a judge , and so eminent an ...
... interesting , I am very far from wishing to affirm ; but I trust that many will be found of no inconsiderable value , as containing the opinions , on lite- rary subjects , of one who was himself so excellent a judge , and so eminent an ...
الصفحة 48
... interesting kind , but these passages are few in comparison to the extent of the work . I cannot help thinking that our author is often te- dious to a fault . In the first volumes there are , if I mistake not , many needless ( and I had ...
... interesting kind , but these passages are few in comparison to the extent of the work . I cannot help thinking that our author is often te- dious to a fault . In the first volumes there are , if I mistake not , many needless ( and I had ...
الصفحة 49
... interesting ; and deeply interesting every narrative of this kind ought to be . One of the rules to be obser- ved in the Aristotelean drama , is , that there be no scene in the piece superfluous . I wish the au- thor of " Clarissa " had ...
... interesting ; and deeply interesting every narrative of this kind ought to be . One of the rules to be obser- ved in the Aristotelean drama , is , that there be no scene in the piece superfluous . I wish the au- thor of " Clarissa " had ...
الصفحة 106
... interesting , and which can alone procure you that universal fame which you deserve , and will likewise procure you a more solid reward of your labours . " LETTER XII . DR BEATTIE TO SIR WILLIAM FORBES . 106 LIFE OF DR BEATTIE .
... interesting , and which can alone procure you that universal fame which you deserve , and will likewise procure you a more solid reward of your labours . " LETTER XII . DR BEATTIE TO SIR WILLIAM FORBES . 106 LIFE OF DR BEATTIE .
الصفحة 135
... interesting and sacred , with- out expressing such dissatisfaction as would ef- fectually prevent any gentleman of tolerable good breeding from repeating the insult , or , at least , that he would endeavour to retort the ridicule , if ...
... interesting and sacred , with- out expressing such dissatisfaction as would ef- fectually prevent any gentleman of tolerable good breeding from repeating the insult , or , at least , that he would endeavour to retort the ridicule , if ...
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