Author: Thomas BlacklockPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Correspondence between Thomas Blacklock (10 letters) and James Beattie (18 letters).
Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. SuttonPublisher:
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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The Correspondence Of James Beattie
Author: James BeattiePublisher: Thoemmes
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
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.
4 letters from Thomas Blacklock to James Cumming
Author: Thomas BlacklockA Bibliography of Hume's Writings and Early Responses
Author: James FieserPublisher: James Fieser
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
This work is a supplement to the 10-volume series "Early Responses to Hume", which is an edited and annotated collection of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century critical reactions to Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) . Both a philosopher and historian, he was infamous in his day for his skeptical views on human nature, knowledge, metaphysics, and religion.
Early Responses to Hume's Life And Reputation
Author: James FieserPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781843711155
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This set presents dozens of early biographically-related discussions of Hume in their most complete form, reset, annotated and introduced by James Fieser. It includes anecdotes, discussions of Hume as an infidel, and fictitious dialogues in which Hume is a character. It also contains newly discovered accounts of Hume's alleged secret deathbed anguish, and the most detailed bibliography yet of eighteenth and nineteenth-century responses to Hume. The final volume concludes with an index to the complete ten-volume collection.
The Correspondence of James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo
Author: James BoswellPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030025038X
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, documents the long friendship between Boswell and Sir William Forbes This volume, tenth in the Research Correspondence Series of the Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, collects the letters exchanged between lawyer, diarist, and biographer James Boswell and Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, eminent Scottish banker, civic improver, philanthropist, literary and cultural patron, and lay leader of Edinburgh's "English Episcopal" community. Forbes served as Boswell's most valued Scottish advisor, to whom he would often turn for personal, financial, moral, and religious guidance, and whom he would name executor of his estate and co-guardian of his children. The volume includes a total of 111 comprehensively annotated letters, few of which have appeared previously in print, between Forbes and Boswell and other correspondents. It illuminates in particular the period in which Boswell moved from Edinburgh to London and wrote his major books, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson and The Life of Samuel Johnson.
The Correspondence of James Boswell with Certain Members of The Club, Including Oliver Goldsmith, Bishops Percy and Barnard, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Topham Beauclerk, and Bennet Langton
Author: James BoswellPublisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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The Complete Writings of Robert Burns
Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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