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By: James Beattie ; with a new introduction by Roger J. Robinson.
Contributors: Robinson, Roger J.
Series: The works of James Beattie -- [10]
Publisher: Routledge; Thoemmes Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Work titles: Works
Notes: Facsimile reprints of various prose works written between 1767 and 1791.
Table of contents: value: Contents: The Castle of scepticism (ed. E.C. Mossner) - Beattie on Voltaire(ed. E.C. Mossner) - A letter to the Rev. Hugh Blair on the improvement of psalmody in Scotland (1778) - On the lawfulness and expediency of slavery, particularly that of the negroes, written in the year 1778 - Scoticisms ... designed to correct improprieties of speech and writing (1787) - Remarks on ... 6th Book of the Eneid (1790) - An account of the author's life and character, from Essays and fragments in prose and verse (1794).