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, Том 2Arch. Constable and Company, Edinburgh; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, T. Cadell and W. Davies, and John Murray, London., 1807 - 388 стор. |
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... hand - writing for it ; and this is the opinion of many others . I have more reasons than the world knows of , to wish to pass the latter part of my days in quiet ; and the more quiet , and the more health I enjoy , the more I shall ...
... hand - writing for it ; and this is the opinion of many others . I have more reasons than the world knows of , to wish to pass the latter part of my days in quiet ; and the more quiet , and the more health I enjoy , the more I shall ...
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... hands of book- sellers , nor carried on by solicitation , but was " to be considered as a voluntary mark of the ap- 66 CC probation of some persons of rank and fortune , " who wished it to be known , that they patron- " ized me on ...
... hands of book- sellers , nor carried on by solicitation , but was " to be considered as a voluntary mark of the ap- 66 CC probation of some persons of rank and fortune , " who wished it to be known , that they patron- " ized me on ...
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... hands , which they may call Hume , or any body else ; it is true it has a tolerable broad back . As for Voltaire , I intended he should be one of the group . " I intended to write more , but I hear the postman's bell . Dr Johnson , who ...
... hands , which they may call Hume , or any body else ; it is true it has a tolerable broad back . As for Voltaire , I intended he should be one of the group . " I intended to write more , but I hear the postman's bell . Dr Johnson , who ...
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... hand ; but my health obliges me to labour very moderately in reducing them into order . I am very unwilling to relinquish the hope of receiving from you , madam , some assistance in completing my vo- lume . I beg you will think of it ...
... hand ; but my health obliges me to labour very moderately in reducing them into order . I am very unwilling to relinquish the hope of receiving from you , madam , some assistance in completing my vo- lume . I beg you will think of it ...
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... hands of the public . The controversial part of Dr Reid's book regards the existence of matter chiefly ; Dr Oswald's system ( though there are many good things in his book ) I never dis- tinctly understood . The former of these authors ...
... hands of the public . The controversial part of Dr Reid's book regards the existence of matter chiefly ; Dr Oswald's system ( though there are many good things in his book ) I never dis- tinctly understood . The former of these authors ...
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