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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... never stirred from home ; and which are equally unfriendly to Christian charity , to true politeness , and , I may add , to the ad- vancement of a man's interest even in this world . " The opposition to the projected scheme of uniting ...
... never stirred from home ; and which are equally unfriendly to Christian charity , to true politeness , and , I may add , to the ad- vancement of a man's interest even in this world . " The opposition to the projected scheme of uniting ...
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... never better filled than at present . The other college is not so flourishing . Their students are said to be under ninety ; ours to be above an hundred and forty . I will not say that this account is perfectly exact , but have reason ...
... never better filled than at present . The other college is not so flourishing . Their students are said to be under ninety ; ours to be above an hundred and forty . I will not say that this account is perfectly exact , but have reason ...
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... never , as far as I know , appeared in print , like most of his family . Be- sides the amiable sufferer , the author of these Essays , ' their mother , Mrs Bowdler , daughter of Sir John Cotton , was pos- sessed of very extraordinary ...
... never , as far as I know , appeared in print , like most of his family . Be- sides the amiable sufferer , the author of these Essays , ' their mother , Mrs Bowdler , daughter of Sir John Cotton , was pos- sessed of very extraordinary ...
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... never published any literary work , possesses a taste and an understanding highly cultivated , with powers of epistolary composition , which speak her to be mistress of talents , were she to employ them for the press , by no means ...
... never published any literary work , possesses a taste and an understanding highly cultivated , with powers of epistolary composition , which speak her to be mistress of talents , were she to employ them for the press , by no means ...
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... never per- " mit any body to teach my class , as long as I 66 am able to teach it . For habits of seven - and- 66 twenty years standing are not easily got the " better of ; and I find so much amusement in " this business , which on all ...
... never per- " mit any body to teach my class , as long as I 66 am able to teach it . For habits of seven - and- 66 twenty years standing are not easily got the " better of ; and I find so much amusement in " this business , which on all ...
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