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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. A New Edition, in Two Volumes.
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. A New Edition, in Two Volumes.
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. A New Edition, in Two Volumes.
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. A New Edition, in Two Volumes.

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. A New Edition, in Two Volumes.

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ix, 420; 429 pp. Full diced calf. 8vo. A biography of James Beattie, examining his writings as a professor of philosophy. His response to David Hume in An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth and his poem The Minstrel (praised by Samuel Johnson) are his best remembered works. Beattie also advocated for abolition, citing the case of Dido Belle as evidence of the mental capacity of black people (something regularly questioned, and used as an argument against affording them civil rights, during his lifetime). The author was a lifelong friend of Beattie's who also had an assocation with Samuel Johnson, as a member of his literary dining club. James Boswell mentions him in his Tour to the Hebrides.