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, Volum 3Arch. Constable and Company, Edinburgh; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, T. Cadell and W. Davies, and John Murray, London., 1807 - 388 pàgines |
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... College for the ensuing year . Your assessors are also re - elected ; and Major Mercer is re - elected Dean of Faculty . This mat- ter was conducted with the greatest unanimity . All the college , students as well as professors , are ...
... College for the ensuing year . Your assessors are also re - elected ; and Major Mercer is re - elected Dean of Faculty . This mat- ter was conducted with the greatest unanimity . All the college , students as well as professors , are ...
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... Major Mercer . In the Bishop's last letter to me there is the following passage : " We have been much 66 amused this summer with Keate's Account of " the Pelew Islands : ' and it is almost the only " summer book we have had . For ...
... Major Mercer . In the Bishop's last letter to me there is the following passage : " We have been much 66 amused this summer with Keate's Account of " the Pelew Islands : ' and it is almost the only " summer book we have had . For ...
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... Major Mercer , Mr Arbuthnot , and myself , to all of whom he was much attached , as he had long received from us the strongest proofs of mutual friendship . " Of this selection , it must be fairly acknow- ledged , that all the pieces ...
... Major Mercer , Mr Arbuthnot , and myself , to all of whom he was much attached , as he had long received from us the strongest proofs of mutual friendship . " Of this selection , it must be fairly acknow- ledged , that all the pieces ...
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... as well as it is reasonable to expect . * A very deserving officer of artillery , who died at this time in the West Indies . " I sometimes make an excursion to Major Mercer's , 152 LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . LETTER CCXXXVI. ...
... as well as it is reasonable to expect . * A very deserving officer of artillery , who died at this time in the West Indies . " I sometimes make an excursion to Major Mercer's , 152 LIFE OF DR BEATTIE . LETTER CCXXXVI. ...
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... Major Mercer's , which is the only sort of visit I ever attempt ; and he and I are , I hope , beneficial to each other ; though his affliction is , I fear , in some respects , heavier than either yours or mine . Alas ! how many things ...
... Major Mercer's , which is the only sort of visit I ever attempt ; and he and I are , I hope , beneficial to each other ; though his affliction is , I fear , in some respects , heavier than either yours or mine . Alas ! how many things ...
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An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D. Late ..., Volum 3 Sir William Forbes Visualització completa - 1807 |
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