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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... observe , an honour to my theory of virtue but , what gives me much more pleasure , ( theorist as I am , ) it does honour also to the vir- tue and good sense of the age , it does honour to human nature . I do not know any thing more ...
... observe , an honour to my theory of virtue but , what gives me much more pleasure , ( theorist as I am , ) it does honour also to the vir- tue and good sense of the age , it does honour to human nature . I do not know any thing more ...
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... observe , vastly inferior to Vincent Bourne . I have not had time to read it very critically ; but I should imagine , from what I have seen , that the translator has not always hit his au- thor's meaning . I know not on what authority ...
... observe , vastly inferior to Vincent Bourne . I have not had time to read it very critically ; but I should imagine , from what I have seen , that the translator has not always hit his au- thor's meaning . I know not on what authority ...
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... late , his Treatise of Human Nature ; though I ( 6 am sorry to observe , from the tenor of his de- " claration , that he still seems inclined to adhere " to ' most of the reasonings and principles con- 134 LIFE OF DR BEATTIE .
... late , his Treatise of Human Nature ; though I ( 6 am sorry to observe , from the tenor of his de- " claration , that he still seems inclined to adhere " to ' most of the reasonings and principles con- 134 LIFE OF DR BEATTIE .
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... observe , well - worthy the traveller's attention ; and if it is ever my fortune to revisit the west of England , I shall be inexcusable if I * This he afterwards most admirably accomplished in his " Evidences of the Christian Religion ...
... observe , well - worthy the traveller's attention ; and if it is ever my fortune to revisit the west of England , I shall be inexcusable if I * This he afterwards most admirably accomplished in his " Evidences of the Christian Religion ...
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... observe , that as I do not mean to enter the lists with ei- ther of the two great writers , * who have already prepared inscriptions for this work , I offer the following rather as a hint towards one , than as a finished performance ...
... observe , that as I do not mean to enter the lists with ei- ther of the two great writers , * who have already prepared inscriptions for this work , I offer the following rather as a hint towards one , than as a finished performance ...
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