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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... spirit of Lord Gardenstown , and the great encou- ragement he bestowed on it , at a very considerable expence.— Any farther account of Lawrencekirk , however , is foreign from my present purpose . I may merely add , that the house , in ...
... spirit of Lord Gardenstown , and the great encou- ragement he bestowed on it , at a very considerable expence.— Any farther account of Lawrencekirk , however , is foreign from my present purpose . I may merely add , that the house , in ...
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... spirits , which had helped to support him through a variety of distressful circum- stances , to which it had been his lot to be exposed . And to all be done , prevailed on the late Earl of Erroll 34 LIFE OF DR BEATTIE .
... spirits , which had helped to support him through a variety of distressful circum- stances , to which it had been his lot to be exposed . And to all be done , prevailed on the late Earl of Erroll 34 LIFE OF DR BEATTIE .
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... spirit of philo- sophical research , which has reflected so much lustre on the north of Scotland . The members ( says the elegant author of the life of Dr Grego- ry , ) were persons of distinguished abilities and learning , attached to ...
... spirit of philo- sophical research , which has reflected so much lustre on the north of Scotland . The members ( says the elegant author of the life of Dr Grego- ry , ) were persons of distinguished abilities and learning , attached to ...
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... spirit of lyric poetry , and some of the elegiac poems are highly pathetic and affecting , fable seems to be a species of composition for which he had but little genius . It may therefore , pro- bably , excite some wonder , that while ...
... spirit of lyric poetry , and some of the elegiac poems are highly pathetic and affecting , fable seems to be a species of composition for which he had but little genius . It may therefore , pro- bably , excite some wonder , that while ...
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... spirit . † After all , a better translation of Virgil than any we yet have seen , seems to be a work more to be wished for than expected . Dr Beattie himself has said in another place , that " it is not possible " for one who is ...
... spirit . † After all , a better translation of Virgil than any we yet have seen , seems to be a work more to be wished for than expected . Dr Beattie himself has said in another place , that " it is not possible " for one who is ...
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