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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... practice of putting his name to every thing he wrote . * LETTER CXCIV . DR BEATTIE TO ROBERT ARBUTHNOT , ESQ . Aberdeen , 13th November , 1786 . " I mean instantly to set about the preface to Addison . I beg you will inform me , whether ...
... practice of putting his name to every thing he wrote . * LETTER CXCIV . DR BEATTIE TO ROBERT ARBUTHNOT , ESQ . Aberdeen , 13th November , 1786 . " I mean instantly to set about the preface to Addison . I beg you will inform me , whether ...
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... 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 he read with grammatical and critical ...
... 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 he read with grammatical and critical ...
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... practice ; and , by exhibiting a copious specimen of the new phraseology , endeavour to make my reader set his heart against it . " I am very happy to hear , that your eldest son intends so soon to exchange Paris for Geneva ; a land of ...
... practice ; and , by exhibiting a copious specimen of the new phraseology , endeavour to make my reader set his heart against it . " I am very happy to hear , that your eldest son intends so soon to exchange Paris for Geneva ; a land of ...
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... practice , he says , with a view of assisting the 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 ...
... practice , he says , with a view of assisting the 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 ...
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... practice , can never be " too much admired . " § " Elements of Moral Science , Vol . II . p . 80 . [ ] Ibid . p . 83 . § Ibid . p . 98 . by all our Frenchified critics , be considered as a 2 128 LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . • ...
... practice , can never be " too much admired . " § " Elements of Moral Science , Vol . II . p . 80 . [ ] Ibid . p . 83 . § Ibid . p . 98 . by all our Frenchified critics , be considered as a 2 128 LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . • ...
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