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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... written " for publication , " says the Editor of Lord Orford's works , " have always been sought " for with eagerness by the intelligent pub- " lic , who justly conceive , that , by their 66 means , the most intimate and most satis ...
... written " for publication , " says the Editor of Lord Orford's works , " have always been sought " for with eagerness by the intelligent pub- " lic , who justly conceive , that , by their 66 means , the most intimate and most satis ...
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... written ; but I have thought myself fully warranted in omitting , with- out scruple , whatever it seemed to me that he would not have permitted to see the light . When I consider the very great number of his letters , which I have been ...
... written ; but I have thought myself fully warranted in omitting , with- out scruple , whatever it seemed to me that he would not have permitted to see the light . When I consider the very great number of his letters , which I have been ...
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... written in a fair hand on the interleaved pages . Longinus on the Sublime is prepared for the same pur- pose , but no notes are written . In his copy of Virgil in Usum Delphini there are some notes written by him , but they are not ...
... written in a fair hand on the interleaved pages . Longinus on the Sublime is prepared for the same pur- pose , but no notes are written . In his copy of Virgil in Usum Delphini there are some notes written by him , but they are not ...
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... written . From that wild and romantic spot he drew , as from the life , some of the finest descriptions , and most beautiful pictures of nature , in his poetical compositions . He has been heard to , say , for instance , that the ...
... written . From that wild and romantic spot he drew , as from the life , some of the finest descriptions , and most beautiful pictures of nature , in his poetical compositions . He has been heard to , say , for instance , that the ...
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... writing with a pencil . On enquiring what he was about , and finding that he was employed in the compo- sition of a poem , Mr Garden's curiosity was at- tracted , and from that period he took the young bard under his protection . Dr ...
... writing with a pencil . On enquiring what he was about , and finding that he was employed in the compo- sition of a poem , Mr Garden's curiosity was at- tracted , and from that period he took the young bard under his protection . Dr ...
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