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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... reader to draw the conclusions from his pre- mises ; which is the most inoffensive way of con- ducting controversy , but not perhaps the most instructive . It gives me also concern to see so very able and so learned a writer affect ...
... reader to draw the conclusions from his pre- mises ; which is the most inoffensive way of con- ducting controversy , but not perhaps the most instructive . It gives me also concern to see so very able and so learned a writer affect ...
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... reader , who has a taste for elegant composition , or a heart dis- posed to profit by wise instruction ; instruction the more forcible , ยท + See a letter inserted soon after the death of Miss Bowdler , and the publication of the Essays ...
... reader , who has a taste for elegant composition , or a heart dis- posed to profit by wise instruction ; instruction the more forcible , ยท + See a letter inserted soon after the death of Miss Bowdler , and the publication of the Essays ...
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... 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 impiety and distraction , for a settled government in a Christian country . Ever since the ...
... 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 impiety and distraction , for a settled government in a Christian country . Ever since the ...
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... readers . But the spirit and principles of the work , I , as a lover of my King , and of the constitution of my country , do highly approve ; and within my very narrow circle of influence , I shall not fail to recommend it . It came ...
... readers . But the spirit and principles of the work , I , as a lover of my King , and of the constitution of my country , do highly approve ; and within my very narrow circle of influence , I shall not fail to recommend it . It came ...
Page 118
... readers with paradox , and theories of his own contrivance . And let it be considered farther , he adds , that as all the practical , and most of the speculative , parts of moral science , have been frequently and fully ex- plained by ...
... readers with paradox , and theories of his own contrivance . And let it be considered farther , he adds , that as all the practical , and most of the speculative , parts of moral science , have been frequently and fully ex- plained by ...
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