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, Volume 2Arch. Constable and Company, Edinburgh; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, T. Cadell and W. Davies, and John Murray, London., 1807 - 388 pages |
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... death of Dr James Russel , by whom it had been long ably filled . As that event had been for sometime foreseen , several gentlemen had turned their thoughts towards it as candi- dates . But the magistrates , who are the elec- tors ...
... death of Dr James Russel , by whom it had been long ably filled . As that event had been for sometime foreseen , several gentlemen had turned their thoughts towards it as candi- dates . But the magistrates , who are the elec- tors ...
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... death of Dr Russel , I re- ceived a visit from one of the magistrates , who was of my particular acquaintance , and who knew my intimacy with Dr Beattie . He came to inform me , he said , that several of the mem- bers of the town ...
... death of Dr Russel , I re- ceived a visit from one of the magistrates , who was of my particular acquaintance , and who knew my intimacy with Dr Beattie . He came to inform me , he said , that several of the mem- bers of the town ...
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... dear and so respectable a friend . The lines relating to him were written ( as I think I told you fore ) immediately after I received the melancholy be- news of his death ; when my mind was oppressed LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . 43 1 ...
... dear and so respectable a friend . The lines relating to him were written ( as I think I told you fore ) immediately after I received the melancholy be- news of his death ; when my mind was oppressed LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . 43 1 ...
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... death ; when my mind was oppressed with a weight of sorrow , which I did not , and which I needed not , attempt to exaggerate in the description . His friendship was for many years a never - failing source of consolation to me , in all ...
... death ; when my mind was oppressed with a weight of sorrow , which I did not , and which I needed not , attempt to exaggerate in the description . His friendship was for many years a never - failing source of consolation to me , in all ...
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... death and the resurrection , remain in a state of non - existence . The theory is not a new one ; but his Lordship seems to be one of the . * Considerations on the Theory of Religion , by Edmund , Lord Bishop of Carlisle , p . 431 ...
... death and the resurrection , remain in a state of non - existence . The theory is not a new one ; but his Lordship seems to be one of the . * Considerations on the Theory of Religion , by Edmund , Lord Bishop of Carlisle , p . 431 ...
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