The Poetical Works of James Beattie. James Beattie
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Название: The Poetical Works of James Beattie

Автор: James Beattie

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СКАЧАТЬ of music, and, with the assistance of the Rev. Dr. Laing, had superintended the building an organ for himself. In one of our author's letters, 8th June, 1791, is the following passage:

"The organ of Durham cathedral was too much for my feelings; for it brought too powerfully to my remembrance another organ, much smaller, indeed, but more interesting, which I can never hear any more."

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See, too, Beattie's letter to Blacklock, p. xv. of this memoir.

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Thy shades, thy silence now be mine,Thy charms my only theme;My haunt the hollow cliff, whose pineWaves o'er the gloomy stream:Whence the scar'd owl on pinions grayBreaks from the rustling boughs,And down the lone vale sails awayTo more profound repose.

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Roger Bacon, the father of experimental philosophy. He flourished in the thirteenth century.

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See The Spectator, No. 47.

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Hobbes was a great smoker, and wrote what some have been pleased to call a Translation of Homer.

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He taught that the external universe has no existence, but an ideal one, in the mind (or spirit) that perceives it; and he thought tar-water a universal remedy.

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Private vices public benefits.

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Electrical batteries.

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Bred a printer. This was written long before Dr. Franklin's death.

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Dr. L., Bp. of C., is probably the person here alluded to. He was a zealous materialist.

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He resolved Perception and Thinking into vibrations, and (what he called) vibratiuncles of the brain.

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