An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie, Including Many of His Original Letters

ISBN: 9781330239674 出版年：2018 页码：563 William Forbes Forgotten Books

In order to exhibit to the reader a faithful portrait of the ori ginal, I propose to follow the example of Mr Mason in his life of Gray, by producing some of the most interesting of Dr Beattie's letters, and connecting them by a narrative, at proper periods, of the principal incidents of his life. By this method, he will, in no inconsiderable degree, be his own biographer. And those letters will more clearly Show the genuine goodness of his heart, and the soundness of his judgment, than any laboured character of him that could possibly be drawn.