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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... language , but destitute of taste , as well as of some other qualifications essential to a good teacher . During the period of his attendance at the pa- rish - school , he had access to few books . * Such as he could procure , he read ...
... language , but destitute of taste , as well as of some other qualifications essential to a good teacher . During the period of his attendance at the pa- rish - school , he had access to few books . * Such as he could procure , he read ...
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... language he was eminently skill- ed ; author of an " Inquiry into the Life and Writings of Ho- mer ; " " Letters concerning Mythology ; " and " Memoirs of the Court of Augustus . " him reason to believe that he was possessed of any LIFE ...
... language he was eminently skill- ed ; author of an " Inquiry into the Life and Writings of Ho- mer ; " " Letters concerning Mythology ; " and " Memoirs of the Court of Augustus . " him reason to believe that he was possessed of any LIFE ...
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... language that would be altogether unintelligible to a popular audience ; which so disgusted Thom- son with theological pursuits , that he resolved to betake himself entirely to the cultivation of his poetical talents , by which he ...
... language that would be altogether unintelligible to a popular audience ; which so disgusted Thom- son with theological pursuits , that he resolved to betake himself entirely to the cultivation of his poetical talents , by which he ...
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... language , and a still more extensive work , entitled , " Antient Metaphysics , " in which he has indulged himself in not a few paradoxical and fanciful theories . His wri- tings , however , evince him to have been a man of learning and ...
... language , and a still more extensive work , entitled , " Antient Metaphysics , " in which he has indulged himself in not a few paradoxical and fanciful theories . His wri- tings , however , evince him to have been a man of learning and ...
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... language , particularly in poetry and belles lettres , of whom he well knew how to appreciate the re- spective ... languages . By these means his con- versation was uncommonly entertaining and instructive . He possessed , likewise , an ...
... language , particularly in poetry and belles lettres , of whom he well knew how to appreciate the re- spective ... languages . By these means his con- versation was uncommonly entertaining and instructive . He possessed , likewise , an ...
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