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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... thoughts towards it as candi- dates . But the magistrates , who are the elec- tors , very properly resolved to be in no hurry in filling up the vacancy , in order that there might be time and opportunity to dispose of the chair in such ...
... thoughts towards it as candi- dates . But the magistrates , who are the elec- tors , very properly resolved to be in no hurry in filling up the vacancy , in order that there might be time and opportunity to dispose of the chair in such ...
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... thought my- self a very great gainer , by exchanging my pre- sent office with a professorship in the university of Edinburgh . Such an event would have doubled my income , without subjecting me to one half of the labour which I now ...
... thought my- self a very great gainer , by exchanging my pre- sent office with a professorship in the university of Edinburgh . Such an event would have doubled my income , without subjecting me to one half of the labour which I now ...
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... thoughts of appearing as a can- didate on the present occasion ; and which would determine me to this , even though I were abso- lutely certain of being elected . Nay , though my fortune were as narrow now , as it lately was , I should ...
... thoughts of appearing as a can- didate on the present occasion ; and which would determine me to this , even though I were abso- lutely certain of being elected . Nay , though my fortune were as narrow now , as it lately was , I should ...
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... thoughts of the matter . Some months afterwards , Dr Beattie informed me , that some person , no doubt with a friendly intention , without his knowledge , had told Lord Dartmouth , that he was a candidate for the pro- fessorship ; on ...
... thoughts of the matter . Some months afterwards , Dr Beattie informed me , that some person , no doubt with a friendly intention , without his knowledge , had told Lord Dartmouth , that he was a candidate for the pro- fessorship ; on ...
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... thought something might have been taken from the edge of his style , yet so as to leave it the power of cutting deep enough . But that is a matter of taste and opinion . They , who have felt the sharpness of his weapon , will not ...
... thought something might have been taken from the edge of his style , yet so as to leave it the power of cutting deep enough . But that is a matter of taste and opinion . They , who have felt the sharpness of his weapon , will not ...
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