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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... translation of Virgil , from which he learned " the tale of Troy divine , ” and first became acquainted with English versification . † Even at that early * For such books as he read at this early period , he was al- most solely indebted ...
... translation of Virgil , from which he learned " the tale of Troy divine , ” and first became acquainted with English versification . † Even at that early * For such books as he read at this early period , he was al- most solely indebted ...
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... translation . * Mrs Valentine , who told this anecdote to Mr Arbuthnot , from whom I had it . + Dr Thomas Blackwell , Principal of Marischal College , and Professor of Greek , in which language he was eminently skill- ed ; author of an ...
... translation . * Mrs Valentine , who told this anecdote to Mr Arbuthnot , from whom I had it . + Dr Thomas Blackwell , Principal of Marischal College , and Professor of Greek , in which language he was eminently skill- ed ; author of an ...
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... translated by Pope , that an eminent critic has not scrupled to declare it to be superior to the original . * He used , him- self , to tell , that it was from the top of a high hill in the neighbourhood that he first beheld the ocean ...
... translated by Pope , that an eminent critic has not scrupled to declare it to be superior to the original . * He used , him- self , to tell , that it was from the top of a high hill in the neighbourhood that he first beheld the ocean ...
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... translate the invocation to Venus from the first book of Lucretius . In compliance * Francis Garden , afterwards one of the judges of the supreme courts of civil and criminal law in Scotland , by the title of Lord Gardenstown , the same ...
... translate the invocation to Venus from the first book of Lucretius . In compliance * Francis Garden , afterwards one of the judges of the supreme courts of civil and criminal law in Scotland , by the title of Lord Gardenstown , the same ...
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... translation , bearing all the marks of original com- position , for it was much blotted with alterations and corrections . It was printed in the first col- lection of Dr Beattie's poems , in the year 1760 , but omitted in all the ...
... translation , bearing all the marks of original com- position , for it was much blotted with alterations and corrections . It was printed in the first col- lection of Dr Beattie's poems , in the year 1760 , but omitted in all the ...
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