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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... mind : and that he evinced his love of virtue and religion , as well as his refined and classical taste , no less in his private and unreserved , commu- nications with his friends , ( some of them of high rank in life , as well as in ...
... mind : and that he evinced his love of virtue and religion , as well as his refined and classical taste , no less in his private and unreserved , commu- nications with his friends , ( some of them of high rank in life , as well as in ...
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... mind , in those meditations which he loved to indulge , amidst the beautiful and sublime scenery of that neighbourhood , which furnished him with endless amusement . At a tionary exercise , the explanation of a psalm , the professor re ...
... mind , in those meditations which he loved to indulge , amidst the beautiful and sublime scenery of that neighbourhood , which furnished him with endless amusement . At a tionary exercise , the explanation of a psalm , the professor re ...
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... mind of young Beattie , and should have sug- gested to him the idea , that there , perhaps , might be his own place of sepulture . At a later period , however , he had changed his design in that respect ; and after he began to spend so ...
... mind of young Beattie , and should have sug- gested to him the idea , that there , perhaps , might be his own place of sepulture . At a later period , however , he had changed his design in that respect ; and after he began to spend so ...
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... mind . It is pleasing , I think , to contemplate these his early habits , so congenial to the feelings of a poetical and warm imagination ; and , therefore , I trust I shall be forgiven for having dwelt on them so long . † * Melmoth's ...
... mind . It is pleasing , I think , to contemplate these his early habits , so congenial to the feelings of a poetical and warm imagination ; and , therefore , I trust I shall be forgiven for having dwelt on them so long . † * Melmoth's ...
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... minds of his auditors the great and important doctrines which he taught . * Among other advantages derived by Dr Beat- tie from his removal to Aberdeen , was that of be- coming a member of a society , which at that time subsisted there ...
... minds of his auditors the great and important doctrines which he taught . * Among other advantages derived by Dr Beat- tie from his removal to Aberdeen , was that of be- coming a member of a society , which at that time subsisted there ...
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