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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... regard ; so that he was always a welcome guest at Slains - Castle , the seat of Lord Erroll , in Aberdeenshire . For some farther account of this accomplished nobleman , vide Appendix [ D ] . 1 ed from a very curious diary , found among ...
... regard ; so that he was always a welcome guest at Slains - Castle , the seat of Lord Erroll , in Aberdeenshire . For some farther account of this accomplished nobleman , vide Appendix [ D ] . 1 ed from a very curious diary , found among ...
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... regard to the manners of his heroine , entire- ly unworthy of blame . " You ask , What I think of Richardson's ta- lents for the pathetic ? In this respect , I think he has no equals among his own tribe of writers , and not many ...
... regard to the manners of his heroine , entire- ly unworthy of blame . " You ask , What I think of Richardson's ta- lents for the pathetic ? In this respect , I think he has no equals among his own tribe of writers , and not many ...
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... regard for your friendship , and the most zealous attach- ment to your character : my delay was indeed ow- ing to another cause . " I have been employed for some time past in writing a kind of poetical epistle to Mr Black- lock , in ...
... regard for your friendship , and the most zealous attach- ment to your character : my delay was indeed ow- ing to another cause . " I have been employed for some time past in writing a kind of poetical epistle to Mr Black- lock , in ...
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... regard to justice . I have just received a letter from him , which I will answer as soon as possible . Mr Arbuthnot and he will please to accept of my best wishes ; may you live long happy in each other's society ; and may I have the ...
... regard to justice . I have just received a letter from him , which I will answer as soon as possible . Mr Arbuthnot and he will please to accept of my best wishes ; may you live long happy in each other's society ; and may I have the ...
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... regard to the origin of inequality among mankind , though I think the piece on this subject has been much misunder- stood by critics , and misrepresented by wits . Even by his own confession , it is rather a jeu d'esprit than a ...
... regard to the origin of inequality among mankind , though I think the piece on this subject has been much misunder- stood by critics , and misrepresented by wits . Even by his own confession , it is rather a jeu d'esprit than a ...
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