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. In Three Volumes, Volume 3Arch. Constable and Company, Edinburgh; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, T. Cadell and W. Davies, and John Murray, London., 1807 - 388 pages |
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Page 34
... called the external eco- nomy of a family . Matters of learning , taste , and science , are not more the natural province of the one sex than of the other ; and , with regard to these , were they to have the same education and ...
... called the external eco- nomy of a family . Matters of learning , taste , and science , are not more the natural province of the one sex than of the other ; and , with regard to these , were they to have the same education and ...
Page 50
... called him , an inspired idiot . His ballad of Edwin and ' Angelina ' is exceedingly beautiful , and well conducted ; and in his two other poems , though there be great inequalities , there is pathos , ener- gy , and even sublimity ...
... called him , an inspired idiot . His ballad of Edwin and ' Angelina ' is exceedingly beautiful , and well conducted ; and in his two other poems , though there be great inequalities , there is pathos , ener- gy , and even sublimity ...
Page 63
... called ' The Fatal Friendship , ' ought to have been suppressed ; for it does her no credit , and shows her to have been at eighteen a greater adept in love matters than unmarried women of that age are commonly sup- posed to be : There ...
... called ' The Fatal Friendship , ' ought to have been suppressed ; for it does her no credit , and shows her to have been at eighteen a greater adept in love matters than unmarried women of that age are commonly sup- posed to be : There ...
Page 128
... called Justice : - " a principle of great extent , and which may not improperly be " said to form a part of every virtue ; as in every vice there is " something of injustice towards God , our fellow men , or our- " selves . As far as ...
... called Justice : - " a principle of great extent , and which may not improperly be " said to form a part of every virtue ; as in every vice there is " something of injustice towards God , our fellow men , or our- " selves . As far as ...
Page 159
... called the Hen's March ; which no man , who deserves to have ears in his head , would allow to be music at all . " I have just seen a new edition , by Dr Joseph Warton , of the works of Pope . It is fuller than Warburton's ; but you ...
... called the Hen's March ; which no man , who deserves to have ears in his head , would allow to be music at all . " I have just seen a new edition , by Dr Joseph Warton , of the works of Pope . It is fuller than Warburton's ; but you ...
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