An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie: Including Many of His Original Letters, Том 2Archibald Constable and Company, 1807 |
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... thing to do in the world , my constant purpose to do my duty , and pro- mote peace ; and my singular good fortune , to obtain from all who knew me , a share of esteem and regard , equal to my wishes , and greater LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . 5.
... thing to do in the world , my constant purpose to do my duty , and pro- mote peace ; and my singular good fortune , to obtain from all who knew me , a share of esteem and regard , equal to my wishes , and greater LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . 5.
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... thing that concerned religion and good morals , the fol- lowing incident should not be omitted : Two vessels , bound from London to Leith , were cast away on the coast between Dunbar and North Berwick , and two - and - twenty persons ...
... thing that concerned religion and good morals , the fol- lowing incident should not be omitted : Two vessels , bound from London to Leith , were cast away on the coast between Dunbar and North Berwick , and two - and - twenty persons ...
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... thing disagreeable " in carrying this removal into execution . For , " he added , what I most firmly believe to be the truth , that he apprehended many of what ap- ' peared unpleasant circumstances to you , would " totally vanish , or ...
... thing disagreeable " in carrying this removal into execution . For , " he added , what I most firmly believe to be the truth , that he apprehended many of what ap- ' peared unpleasant circumstances to you , would " totally vanish , or ...
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... things to go on in the easiest way : thus things will turn into a corrupted channel . Should a man of mean abilities , or of dubious principles , fill the chair which Dr Beattie might have filled , who must answer for the good which ...
... things to go on in the easiest way : thus things will turn into a corrupted channel . Should a man of mean abilities , or of dubious principles , fill the chair which Dr Beattie might have filled , who must answer for the good which ...
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... thing , too , on this head , deserves attention . A man should not be accused of obstinacy , till he have told all his reasons , and till it appear that they are all unsatisfactory . I have never told all my reasons : I have told those ...
... thing , too , on this head , deserves attention . A man should not be accused of obstinacy , till he have told all his reasons , and till it appear that they are all unsatisfactory . I have never told all my reasons : I have told those ...
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Сторінка 199 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone...
Сторінка 199 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Сторінка 314 - Montagu should smile, New strains ere long shall animate thy frame. And her applause to me is more than fame ; For still with truth accords her taste refined. At lucre or renown let others aim, I only wish to please the gentle mind, Whom Nature's charms inspire, and love of human kind.
Сторінка 320 - Beattie, — the most agreeable and amiable writer I * Hayley's « Life of Cowper,| Vol. III. p. 247. ever met with ; the only author I have seen, whose critical and philosophical researches are diversified and embellished by a poetical imagination, that makes even the driest subject and the leanest, a feast for an epicure in books.
Сторінка 188 - I have had several conversations with him on the subject of the voyage, and once asked him, whether he had ever read the history of it ? He told me, he had read all the history, except the description of their sufferings during the run from...
Сторінка 164 - We are slaves to the language we write, and are continually afraid of committing gross blunders ; and, when an easy, familiar, idiomatical phrase occurs, dare not adopt it, if we recollect no authority, for fear of Scotticisms. In a word, we handle English, as a person who cannot fence handles a sword...
Сторінка 179 - When I first read Young, my heart was broken to think of the poor man's afflictions. Afterwards, I took it in my head, that where there was so much lamentation, there could not be excessive suffering ; and I could not help applying to him sometimes those lines of a song, " Believe me, the shepherd but feigns ; " He's wretched, to show he has wit." On talking with some of Dr Young's particular friends in England, I have since found that my conjecture was right; for that, while he was composing the...
Сторінка 163 - We who live in Scotland are obliged to study English from books, like a dead language. Accordingly, when we write, we write it like a dead language, which we understand, but cannot speak...
Сторінка 371 - Boswell's book is arrived at last, and I have just gone through it. He is very good to me, as Dr Johnson always was; and I am very grateful to both. But I cannot approve the plan of such a work. To publish a man's letters, or his conversation, without his consent, is not, in my opinion, quite fair : for how many things, in the hour of relaxation, or in friendly correspondence, does a man throw out, which he would never wish to hear of again ; and what a restraint would it be on all social intercourse,...
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