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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... memory of every thing is so accurate , that the three years which have intervened since I was last here , seem to have dwindled into as many days . The Bishop and Mrs Porteus are perfectly well , and desire their best respects to Lady ...
... memory of every thing is so accurate , that the three years which have intervened since I was last here , seem to have dwindled into as many days . The Bishop and Mrs Porteus are perfectly well , and desire their best respects to Lady ...
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... memory , of those students who attend my class ; and therefore , though I shall print , I am in doubt whether I should publish it . The students , by paying for their copies , will in time indemnify me for print and paper , which is all ...
... memory , of those students who attend my class ; and therefore , though I shall print , I am in doubt whether I should publish it . The students , by paying for their copies , will in time indemnify me for print and paper , which is all ...
Page 117
... memory of his hear- ers , to make them write notes of each discourse . This practice , although it strongly evinces Dr Beattie's great attention to the instruction of his pupils , was not without its disadvantages , both to them and to ...
... memory of his hear- ers , to make them write notes of each discourse . This practice , although it strongly evinces Dr Beattie's great attention to the instruction of his pupils , was not without its disadvantages , both to them and to ...
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... name of Essays , ' been published in the same form in which they were at first composed , parti- cularly those on The Theory of Language , ' and " ' On Memory and Imagination , ' Dr Beattie has LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . 119.
... name of Essays , ' been published in the same form in which they were at first composed , parti- cularly those on The Theory of Language , ' and " ' On Memory and Imagination , ' Dr Beattie has LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . 119.
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... Memory and Imagination , ' Dr Beattie has made this abridgment as brief as was consistent with any degree of perspicuity ; while he has bestowed no less than seventy pages on his fa- vourite topic , the Abolition of the Slave - trade ...
... Memory and Imagination , ' Dr Beattie has made this abridgment as brief as was consistent with any degree of perspicuity ; while he has bestowed no less than seventy pages on his fa- vourite topic , the Abolition of the Slave - trade ...
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