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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... manner of writing , it was thought would be a most acceptable present to the admirers of Addison . Nor did we know any one so fit for the task as Dr Beattie , whose good taste , added to his enthusiastic admiration of that author , whom ...
... manner of writing , it was thought would be a most acceptable present to the admirers of Addison . Nor did we know any one so fit for the task as Dr Beattie , whose good taste , added to his enthusiastic admiration of that author , whom ...
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... manners still more different from those of his own country , and by preparing him betimes for a correct pronunciation of the French tongue . Youth is the best time both for acquiring lan guages , and for getting the better of those na ...
... manners still more different from those of his own country , and by preparing him betimes for a correct pronunciation of the French tongue . Youth is the best time both for acquiring lan guages , and for getting the better of those na ...
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... manners , not of the constitution . C Mr Thomas Bowdler , the late Mr Bowdler's second son , ( the gentleman mentioned in Dr Beattie's letter , ) published Letters written from Holland , 1787 , containing a History of the Expe- dition ...
... manners , not of the constitution . C Mr Thomas Bowdler , the late Mr Bowdler's second son , ( the gentleman mentioned in Dr Beattie's letter , ) published Letters written from Holland , 1787 , containing a History of the Expe- dition ...
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... manner . I saw the King first on the Terrace , where he knew me at first sight , and did me the honour to converse with me a considerable time . Next morning I saw him again at prayers in his chapel , where he was pleased to introduce ...
... manner . I saw the King first on the Terrace , where he knew me at first sight , and did me the honour to converse with me a considerable time . Next morning I saw him again at prayers in his chapel , where he was pleased to introduce ...
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... manner being totally dif ferent : Dryden's Virgil ' is not a very pleasing book , and conveys not any tolerable idea of the original ; of whose tenderness , pathos , and deli- cacy , and uniform majesty of expression and numbers ...
... manner being totally dif ferent : Dryden's Virgil ' is not a very pleasing book , and conveys not any tolerable idea of the original ; of whose tenderness , pathos , and deli- cacy , and uniform majesty of expression and numbers ...
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