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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... observation , more remarkable for its truth than novelty , that " the lives of men of letters seldom abound " with incidents . A reader of sense and " taste , therefore , " continues he , " never ex- 66 pects to find , in the memoirs of ...
... observation , more remarkable for its truth than novelty , that " the lives of men of letters seldom abound " with incidents . A reader of sense and " taste , therefore , " continues he , " never ex- 66 pects to find , in the memoirs of ...
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... observations upon that celebrated novel . " The author shows great knowledge of man- kind , and of human nature . He possesses an in- exhaustible fund of original sentiment , a happy talent at some kinds of description , particularly ...
... observations upon that celebrated novel . " The author shows great knowledge of man- kind , and of human nature . He possesses an in- exhaustible fund of original sentiment , a happy talent at some kinds of description , particularly ...
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... observations , delivered with no appear ance of sententious formality , and seeming to arise spontaneously without study or premeditation , I passed two very agreeable days with him at Glammis , and found him as easy in his manners ...
... observations , delivered with no appear ance of sententious formality , and seeming to arise spontaneously without study or premeditation , I passed two very agreeable days with him at Glammis , and found him as easy in his manners ...
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... observation was made by Dr Beattie very nearly forty years ago . Since that period , Ita- lian literature has been much more cultivated in Britain , than it was at his first acquaintance with it . pensive ; so that a prudent person ...
... observation was made by Dr Beattie very nearly forty years ago . Since that period , Ita- lian literature has been much more cultivated in Britain , than it was at his first acquaintance with it . pensive ; so that a prudent person ...
الصفحة 120
... and progressively scrutinize , one by one . This persuades you gradually , and by detail ; the other overpowers you in an instant by a single effort . Observe the effect of argumentation in poetry ; we have 120 LIFE OF DR BEATTIE .
... and progressively scrutinize , one by one . This persuades you gradually , and by detail ; the other overpowers you in an instant by a single effort . Observe the effect of argumentation in poetry ; we have 120 LIFE OF DR BEATTIE .
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