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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... taste , therefore , " continues he , " 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 ...
... taste , therefore , " continues he , " 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 ...
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... 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 the literary world , ) than in those valuable works which he composed , with more care , for the ...
... 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 the literary world , ) than in those valuable works which he composed , with more care , for the ...
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... taste will be at any loss to find an answer to the question . If any farther au- thority were wanting , I might add that of Mr Hayley , who has published his interest- ing life of Cowper on the same plan . In the introduction to his ...
... taste will be at any loss to find an answer to the question . If any farther au- thority were wanting , I might add that of Mr Hayley , who has published his interest- ing life of Cowper on the same plan . In the introduction to his ...
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... taste , as well as of some other qualifications essential to a good teacher . During the period of his attendance at the pa- rish - school , he had access to few books . * Such as he could procure , he read with avidity ; and it was ...
... taste , as well as of some other qualifications essential to a good teacher . During the period of his attendance at the pa- rish - school , he had access to few books . * Such as he could procure , he read with avidity ; and it was ...
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... , to a large and populous town , the seat of an university , where he had access to public libraries for study , and the opportunity of cultivating the friendship of persons of taste and learning . [ 32 1 ] SECTION II. ...
... , to a large and populous town , the seat of an university , where he had access to public libraries for study , and the opportunity of cultivating the friendship of persons of taste and learning . [ 32 1 ] SECTION II. ...
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