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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... virtue and religion , as well as his refined and classical 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 ...
... virtue and religion , as well as his refined and classical 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 ...
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... virtue , of religion , and of truth . It would be curious , in many instances , ( con- tinues the author whom I quote , ) to trace the history of those literary compositions , which have instructed or amused the world , and to mark ...
... virtue , of religion , and of truth . It would be curious , in many instances , ( con- tinues the author whom I quote , ) to trace the history of those literary compositions , which have instructed or amused the world , and to mark ...
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... virtue , inti- mates that he is truly in earnest , and that his heart goes along with his pen . " On reading " Clarissa , " we immediately dis- cover that its design is more to instruct than to The author warns the reader of this in his ...
... virtue , inti- mates that he is truly in earnest , and that his heart goes along with his pen . " On reading " Clarissa , " we immediately dis- cover that its design is more to instruct than to The author warns the reader of this in his ...
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... virtue su- perior to what we have discovered in our acquain- tance with mankind ; provided the natural ge- nius inherent in the hero or heroine , assisted by the improvements of the happiest education , be sufficient to render their virtues ...
... virtue su- perior to what we have discovered in our acquain- tance with mankind ; provided the natural ge- nius inherent in the hero or heroine , assisted by the improvements of the happiest education , be sufficient to render their virtues ...
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... virtue . If he meant to promote the cause of vir- tue , it was certainly a proof of an egregious failure in his judgment , that he made choice of a fable whose tendency seems directly contrary . Van- brugh , and Congreve , and Rochester ...
... virtue . If he meant to promote the cause of vir- tue , it was certainly a proof of an egregious failure in his judgment , that he made choice of a fable whose tendency seems directly contrary . Van- brugh , and Congreve , and Rochester ...
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