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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... Poet , and his worth as a Man and a Christian . If in this attempt , therefore , to delineate his cha- racter , I am so fortunate as to gain , in any degree , your approbation , I shall look upon my work with no ordinary degree of com ...
... Poet , and his worth as a Man and a Christian . If in this attempt , therefore , to delineate his cha- racter , I am so fortunate as to gain , in any degree , your approbation , I shall look upon my work with no ordinary degree of com ...
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... Poet , and his worth as a Man and a Christian . If in this attempt , therefore , to delineate his character , I am so fortunate as to gain , in any degree , your approbation , I shall look ироп my work with no ordinary degree of ...
... Poet , and his worth as a Man and a Christian . If in this attempt , therefore , to delineate his character , I am so fortunate as to gain , in any degree , your approbation , I shall look ироп my work with no ordinary degree of ...
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... , " never ex- 66 pects to find , in the memoirs of a philo- " sopher or poet , the same species of enter- VOL . I. * Vol . II . p . 1. Ed . 12mo . A " tainment or information which he would " receive from INTRODUCTION. ...
... , " never ex- 66 pects to find , in the memoirs of a philo- " sopher or poet , the same species of enter- VOL . I. * Vol . II . p . 1. Ed . 12mo . A " tainment or information which he would " receive from INTRODUCTION. ...
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... poet and philosopher , in both of which capacities he eminently excelled . I have also been fortunate enough to recover much of his private correspondence with others . From all which I hope to be able to show , that the writings which ...
... poet and philosopher , in both of which capacities he eminently excelled . I have also been fortunate enough to recover much of his private correspondence with others . From all which I hope to be able to show , that the writings which ...
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... judge , and so eminent an ex- ample , of what is most valuable in philo- sophy , poetry , or criticism . I shall only add farther , that I have been scrupulous in not admitting any thing that I thought would viii INTRODUCTION .
... judge , and so eminent an ex- ample , of what is most valuable in philo- sophy , poetry , or criticism . I shall only add farther , that I have been scrupulous in not admitting any thing that I thought would viii INTRODUCTION .
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