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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... happy . * I " I know not , whether , in a former letter , I did not give you some account of an offer I late- ly had , from some of the town - council of Edin- burgh , of their interest of bringing me into that university , in which ...
... happy . * I " I know not , whether , in a former letter , I did not give you some account of an offer I late- ly had , from some of the town - council of Edin- burgh , of their interest of bringing me into that university , in which ...
Page 56
... happy . " I long to see you here . I had yesterday thirty - six hay - makers , and their children , at din- ner , in a grove in the garden . When they work in my sight , I love to see that they eat as well as labour , and often send ...
... happy . " I long to see you here . I had yesterday thirty - six hay - makers , and their children , at din- ner , in a grove in the garden . When they work in my sight , I love to see that they eat as well as labour , and often send ...
Page 77
... happy in being the instrument of com- municating to you so honourable and advanta- geous a proof of that esteem , which your literary labours have secured to you , amongst all ranks of people . " To this proposition , so very flattering ...
... happy in being the instrument of com- municating to you so honourable and advanta- geous a proof of that esteem , which your literary labours have secured to you , amongst all ranks of people . " To this proposition , so very flattering ...
Page 161
... happy change ; and it would have been of infinite service to religion , to have had all its beneficial consequences set forth by so fine a pen as Dr Robertson's . Such incidental argu- ments in favour of religion , interspersed occa ...
... happy change ; and it would have been of infinite service to religion , to have had all its beneficial consequences set forth by so fine a pen as Dr Robertson's . Such incidental argu- ments in favour of religion , interspersed occa ...
Page 177
... happy with the news he brought from Gordon - Castle , particular- * Jane , Duchess of Gordon , daughter of Sir William Max- well of Monreith , Bart . in the county of Wigton , in Scotland . Her Grace , the honour of whose intimate ...
... happy with the news he brought from Gordon - Castle , particular- * Jane , Duchess of Gordon , daughter of Sir William Max- well of Monreith , Bart . in the county of Wigton , in Scotland . Her Grace , the honour of whose intimate ...
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