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. [With a Portrait.], Tom 1Arch. Constable and Company, Edinburgh; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, T. Cadell and W. Davies, and John Murray, London., 1807 - 388 |
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... distinguished historical and biographical writers , who throw all their notes , how short soever , to the end of the volume ; a mode which I have always thought extremely inconvenient for the reader . When notes run to such a length ...
... distinguished historical and biographical writers , who throw all their notes , how short soever , to the end of the volume ; a mode which I have always thought extremely inconvenient for the reader . When notes run to such a length ...
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... distinguished historical and biographical writers , who throw all their notes , how short soever , to the end of the volume ; a mode which I have always thought extremely inconvenient for the reader . When notes run to such a length ...
... distinguished historical and biographical writers , who throw all their notes , how short soever , to the end of the volume ; a mode which I have always thought extremely inconvenient for the reader . When notes run to such a length ...
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... distinguished as superior to all his class - fellows ; and , at the close of the session 1749-50 , he received from him a book , elegantly bound , bearing the following inscription : “ Jaco- " bo Beattie , in prima classe , ex comitatu ...
... distinguished as superior to all his class - fellows ; and , at the close of the session 1749-50 , he received from him a book , elegantly bound , bearing the following inscription : “ Jaco- " bo Beattie , in prima classe , ex comitatu ...
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... by which he afterwards rose to such distinguished eminence . § § Dr Anderson's Life of Thomson , in the Poets of Great Britain , Vol . ix , p . 274 . small distance from the place of his residence , a LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . 23.
... by which he afterwards rose to such distinguished eminence . § § Dr Anderson's Life of Thomson , in the Poets of Great Britain , Vol . ix , p . 274 . small distance from the place of his residence , a LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . 23.
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... distinguished as a scholar and a divine by his valuable publications in the cause of reli- gion ; in particular , his " Essay on Miracles , " in opposition to the doctrine of Mr Hume , has ever been esteemed one of the most acute and ...
... distinguished as a scholar and a divine by his valuable publications in the cause of reli- gion ; in particular , his " Essay on Miracles , " in opposition to the doctrine of Mr Hume , has ever been esteemed one of the most acute and ...
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