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Author: Sir William ForbesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 442
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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. [With a Portrait.]
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Author: Sir William ForbesJames Beattie
Author: James HarrisPublisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1845404467
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
James Beattie (1735-1803) was appointed professor of moral philosophy and logic at Marischal College, Aberdeen, Scotland at the age of twenty-five. Though more fond of poetry than philosophy, he became part of the Scottish 'Common Sense' school of philosophy that included Thomas Reid and George Campbell. In 1770 Beattie published the work for which he is best known, An Essay on Truth, an abrasive attack on 'modern scepticism' in general, and on David Hume in particular, subsequently and despite Beattie's attack, Scotland's most famous philosopher. The Essay was a great success, earning its author an honorary degree from Oxford and an audience with George III. Samuel Johnson declared in 1772 that 'We all love Beattie'. Hume, on the other hand, described the Essay as 'a horrible large lie in octavo', and dismissed its author as a 'bigotted silly Fellow'. Although Beattie is no match for Hume as a philosopher, the success of the Essay suggests that, unlike Hume, Beattie voices the characteristic assumptions, and anxieties, of his age. The first part of this selection—the first ever made from Beattie's prose writings—includes several key chapters from the Essay on Truth, along with extracts from all of Beattie's other works on moral philosophy. The topics treated include memory, the existence of God, the nature of virtue, and slavery. The second part of the selection is devoted to Beattie's contributions to literary criticism and aesthetics. Beattie's studies of poetry, music, taste, and the sublime are vital to the understanding of the literary culture out of which developed the early Romanticism of Wordsworth and Coleridge.
The Correspondence Of James Beattie
Author: James BeattiePublisher: Thoemmes
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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James Beattie (1735-1803) was a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. He was a popular philosophical opponent of David Hume, and through his famous poem, The Minstrel, he had a lasting influence on Wordsworth and the Romantics. Beattie lived among the great literati of the time, and his wide correspondence provides a treasure trove of information about his contemporaries.
Great Authors of All Ages
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
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Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Remarks on the Frequency and Fatality of Different Diseases, Particularly on the Progressive Increase of Consumption
Author: Gulielmus WoollcombePublisher:
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Category : Epidemiology
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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A List of Works Relating to Scotland
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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Scotland's Pariah
Author: Patrick O'FlahertyPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442619880
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Scotland’s Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adulterer, bigamist, and religious skeptic. A pugnacious and persistent man of letters who knew and was admired by literary masters such as Edward Gibbon, Horace Walpole, and William Godwin, Pinkerton’s life was full of personal and professional misadventures. Patrick O’Flaherty’s biography presents an engrossing account of Pinkerton’s life and works from his early years in Scotland to his Parisian exile, covering his major editorial, antiquarian, and geographic works. Examining Pinkerton’s involvement in the London literary scene, his conflicted relationship with the rise of Celtic nationalism, and his response to early literary romanticism, Scotland’s Pariah is a shrewd and compassionate evaluation of an astonishing literary life.
Panoplist, and Missionary Magazine
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 612
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The Panoplist, Or, The Christian's Armory
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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