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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... merits , as well as to have pointed out historically the changes which the English language has undergone from time to time , and the hazard to which it is 7 2 LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . certainly not the best of his performances; and ...
... merits , as well as to have pointed out historically the changes which the English language has undergone from time to time , and the hazard to which it is 7 2 LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . certainly not the best of his performances; and ...
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... language ; a subject which I have touched upon in the preface to the Scotticisms , but which I purpose to consider with some minute- ness in the other preface . " in LETTER CXCV . DR BEATTIE TO SIR WILLIAM FORBES . Aberdeen , 30th ...
... language ; a subject which I have touched upon in the preface to the Scotticisms , but which I purpose to consider with some minute- ness in the other preface . " in LETTER CXCV . DR BEATTIE TO SIR WILLIAM FORBES . Aberdeen , 30th ...
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... language , I know that , with a little practice , he could speak it easily : he is also 66 making good progress in the French tongue . " From his early years I accustomed him to read " no books but good ones , and to study every " thing ...
... language , I know that , with a little practice , he could speak it easily : he is also 66 making good progress in the French tongue . " From his early years I accustomed him to read " no books but good ones , and to study every " thing ...
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... language . Pope's translation is a very pleasing poem , and I believe a great favourite with the fair sex ; but has nothing of Homer , but the story and the characters , the manner being totally dif ferent : Dryden's Virgil ' is not a ...
... language . Pope's translation is a very pleasing poem , and I believe a great favourite with the fair sex ; but has nothing of Homer , but the story and the characters , the manner being totally dif ferent : Dryden's Virgil ' is not a ...
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... will con- tain , Elements of Moral Science , ' and the second , Elements of Logic . ' Under Logic I comprehend , not only the philosophy of evidence , but likewise every thing that relates to language , composition LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . 39.
... will con- tain , Elements of Moral Science , ' and the second , Elements of Logic . ' Under Logic I comprehend , not only the philosophy of evidence , but likewise every thing that relates to language , composition LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . 39.
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