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... Mind ; on Laughter , and Ludicrous Compofition ; on the Utility of Claffical Learning . By James Beattie , LL.D. Professor of Moral Philofophy and Logic in the Marischal College and Uni- verfity of Aberdeen . 4to . Dilly . To thefe ...
... Mind ; on Laughter , and Ludicrous Compofition ; on the Utility of Claffical Learning . By James Beattie , LL.D. Professor of Moral Philofophy and Logic in the Marischal College and Uni- verfity of Aberdeen . 4to . Dilly . To thefe ...
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... Mind , in two parts - 2dly , An Effay on Laughter and Lu- dicrous Compofition - 3dly , Remarks on the Utility of Claffi- cal Learning , In a In part the firft of the Effay on Poetry 2 Beattie's Effays , on the Immutability of Truth , & c .
... Mind , in two parts - 2dly , An Effay on Laughter and Lu- dicrous Compofition - 3dly , Remarks on the Utility of Claffi- cal Learning , In a In part the firft of the Effay on Poetry 2 Beattie's Effays , on the Immutability of Truth , & c .
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... mind certain affections , or fufceptibilities of affection . Now , all the affections , over which mufic has any power , are of the agreeable kind . And therefore , in this this art , no imitations of natural found or motion Beattie's ...
... mind certain affections , or fufceptibilities of affection . Now , all the affections , over which mufic has any power , are of the agreeable kind . And therefore , in this this art , no imitations of natural found or motion Beattie's ...
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... mind * ) , that no imitation fhould ever be introduced into mufic purely inftrumental . Of vocal melody the expreffion is , or ought to be , afcertained by the poetry ; but the expreffion of the beft inftrumental music is ambiguous . In ...
... mind * ) , that no imitation fhould ever be introduced into mufic purely inftrumental . Of vocal melody the expreffion is , or ought to be , afcertained by the poetry ; but the expreffion of the beft inftrumental music is ambiguous . In ...
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... mind , it will not perhaps be impertinent to offer a conjecture on the caufe of thefe peculiarities ; which , though it thould not ( and indeed I am fatisfied that it will not ) fully account for any one of them , may however incline ...
... mind , it will not perhaps be impertinent to offer a conjecture on the caufe of thefe peculiarities ; which , though it thould not ( and indeed I am fatisfied that it will not ) fully account for any one of them , may however incline ...
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Page 200 - In 1745, I received a letter from the Marquis of Annandale, inviting me to come and live with him in England: I found also, that the friends and family of that young nobleman, were desirous of putting him under my care and direction: For the state of his mind and health required it. I lived with him a twelvemonth: My appointments during that time made a considerable accession to my small fortune.
Page 204 - My company was not unacceptable to the young and careless, as well as to the studious and literary ; and as I took a particular pleasure in the company of modest women, I had no reason to be displeased with the reception I met with from them. In a word, though most men...
Page 204 - ... seemed to be disarmed in my behalf of their wonted fury. My friends never had occasion to vindicate any one circumstance of my character and conduct: not but that the zealots, we may well suppose, would have been glad to invent and propagate any story to my disadvantage, but they could never find any which they thought would wear the face of probability. I cannot say there is no vanity in making this funeral oration of myself, but I hope it is not a misplaced one; and this is a matter of fact...
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Page 186 - Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 200 - I had always entertained a notion, that my want of success in publishing the Treatise of Human Nature, had proceeded more from the manner than the matter, and that I had been guilty of a very usual indiscretion, in going to the press too early. I therefore cast the first part of that work anew in the Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, which was published while I was at Turin. But this piece was at first little more successful than the Treatise of Human Nature.
Page 201 - Advocates chose me their Librarian, an office from which I received little or no emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the History of England...
Page 201 - Meanwhile, my bookseller, A. Millar, informed me, that my former publications (all but the unfortunate Treatise) were beginning to be the subject of conversation; that the sale of them was gradually increasing, and that new editions were demanded. Answers by reverends and right reverends came out two or three in a year ; and I found, by Dr. Warburton's railing, that the books were beginning to be esteemed in good company.
Page 204 - I consider besides that a man of sixty-five, by dying, cuts off only a few years of infirmities; and though I see many symptoms of my literary reputation's breaking out at last with additional lustre, I know that I could have but few years to enjoy it. It is difficult to be more detached from life than I am at present.
Page 203 - I was loaded with them. There is, however, a real satisfaction in living at Paris, from the great number of sensible, knowing, and polite company with which that city abounds above all places in the universe. I thought once of settling there for life.