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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... 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 he had ...
... 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 he had ...
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... written , together with some extracts from Dr Johnson's ' Remarks on Addison's Prose . ' This Dr Beattie has accordingly done ; adding a few notes to make up for any material deficiency there may be it thought to be in Tickell's ...
... written , together with some extracts from Dr Johnson's ' Remarks on Addison's Prose . ' This Dr Beattie has accordingly done ; adding a few notes to make up for any material deficiency there may be it thought to be in Tickell's ...
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... written to relieve the tedious hours of pain and sickness . To the humble and pious Christian , who feels the pressure of distress , and seeks in religion that support and consolation which nothing else can bestow , they present an ...
... written to relieve the tedious hours of pain and sickness . To the humble and pious Christian , who feels the pressure of distress , and seeks in religion that support and consolation which nothing else can bestow , they present an ...
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... written , and gives such an emphasis to what follows in the book , as ยท the year 1797 , an excellent and well - timed pamphlet , in a plain and familiar style , entitled , Reform or Ruin , ' at a period when our national concerns wore a ...
... written , and gives such an emphasis to what follows in the book , as ยท the year 1797 , an excellent and well - timed pamphlet , in a plain and familiar style , entitled , Reform or Ruin , ' at a period when our national concerns wore a ...
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... written to you by Mr ****** , but when he was here I was ill . My son on that occasion took upon him , for the first time , the management of the class , and acquitted himself not only to my satisfaction and theirs , but also to his own ...
... written to you by Mr ****** , but when he was here I was ill . My son on that occasion took upon him , for the first time , the management of the class , and acquitted himself not only to my satisfaction and theirs , but also to his own ...
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