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 - Всего страниц: 388 |
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... years ago . I intend that it shall be one of my addi- tional essays it is a grave philosophical enquiry into the nature of those objects that provoke 6 laughter , with critical remarks on the different sorts of LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . 47.
... years ago . I intend that it shall be one of my addi- tional essays it is a grave philosophical enquiry into the nature of those objects that provoke 6 laughter , with critical remarks on the different sorts of LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . 47.
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... critical remarks on the different sorts of ludicrous composition , and an attempt to account for the superiority of the moderns over the ancients , in the articles of wit and humour . I have written fifty pages , and shall have nearly ...
... critical remarks on the different sorts of ludicrous composition , and an attempt to account for the superiority of the moderns over the ancients , in the articles of wit and humour . I have written fifty pages , and shall have nearly ...
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... critical account you there give of Aristotle's Works , & c .; the fate of metaphysic from his time down to ours ; the crafty and un- fair method of our late sceptics handling the sub- VOL . II . E jects they undertake to write upon ...
... critical account you there give of Aristotle's Works , & c .; the fate of metaphysic from his time down to ours ; the crafty and un- fair method of our late sceptics handling the sub- VOL . II . E jects they undertake to write upon ...
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... critical knowledge of the Greek tongue . Lord Kaimes's Sketches ' I have seen . They are not much different from what I expected . A man , who reads thirty years , with a view to col- lect facts , in support of two or three whimsical ...
... critical knowledge of the Greek tongue . Lord Kaimes's Sketches ' I have seen . They are not much different from what I expected . A man , who reads thirty years , with a view to col- lect facts , in support of two or three whimsical ...
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... 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 we ascribe this old poem to our King James I. If it be his , which I very much ...
... 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 we ascribe this old poem to our King James I. If it be his , which I very much ...
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