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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... CONTINUED . THE following letter relates to a plan which had been formed by some of Dr Beattie's friends here , of publishing the prose - works of Addison in a separate collection . The admirers of that eminent moralist , and truly ...
... CONTINUED . THE following letter relates to a plan which had been formed by some of Dr Beattie's friends here , of publishing the prose - works of Addison in a separate collection . The admirers of that eminent moralist , and truly ...
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... continued to be so weak , that I was often at a loss to determine whether I should pro- ceed or stop . He himself wished to get forward , especially to get to Morpeth , where Dr Keith lives , a particular friend of ours , of whose affec ...
... continued to be so weak , that I was often at a loss to determine whether I should pro- ceed or stop . He himself wished to get forward , especially to get to Morpeth , where Dr Keith lives , a particular friend of ours , of whose affec ...
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... continued firm in his own opinion ; and the volume came from the press as it now appears . † To the edition of Dr Beattie's works , in prose and verse , now prepar- ing for publication , I propose to subjoin only such a selection of ...
... continued firm in his own opinion ; and the volume came from the press as it now appears . † To the edition of Dr Beattie's works , in prose and verse , now prepar- ing for publication , I propose to subjoin only such a selection of ...
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... continued to connect him with society . On this subject he and I had frequent conferences ; in the course of which he informed me , that he had done me the honour to appoint me one of those friends to whom he had left the charge of his ...
... continued to connect him with society . On this subject he and I had frequent conferences ; in the course of which he informed me , that he had done me the honour to appoint me one of those friends to whom he had left the charge of his ...
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... continued till within a few minutes of his death , when he was heard to repeat in a whisper the Lord's prayer , and began an unfinished sentence , of which nothing could be heard but the words incorruptible glory . Pious sentiments ...
... continued till within a few minutes of his death , when he was heard to repeat in a whisper the Lord's prayer , and began an unfinished sentence , of which nothing could be heard but the words incorruptible glory . Pious sentiments ...
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