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See also:BEATTIE, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES (1735—1803) , Scottish poet and writer on See also:philosophy, was See also:born at Laurencekirk, Kincardine, See also:Scotland, on the 25th of See also:October 1735. His See also:father, a small See also:farmer and shopkeeper, died when he was very See also:young; but an See also:elder See also:brother sent him to Marischal See also:College, See also:Aberdeen, where he gained a bursary. In 1753 he was appointed schoolmaster of Fordoun in his native See also:county. Here he had .as neighbours the See also:eccentric See also:Francis See also:Garden (afterwards See also:Lord Gardenstone, See also:judge of the supreme See also:court of Scotland), and Lord See also:Monboddo. In 1758 he became an See also:- USHER (O. Fr. ussier, uissier, mod. huissier, from Lat. ostiarius, a door-keeper, ostium, doorway, entrance, os, mouth)
- USHER (or USSHER), JAMES (1581-1656)
usher in the See also:grammar school of Aberdeen, and two years later he was made See also:professor of moral philosophy at Marischal College. Here he became closely acquainted with Dr See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Reid, Dr See also:George See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell, Dr See also:Alexander See also:Gerard and others, who formed a See also:kind of See also:literary or philosophic society known as the " See also:Wise See also:Club." They met once a fortnight to discuss speculative questions, See also:David See also:Hume's philosophy being an especial See also:object of See also:criticism. In 1761 Beattie published a small See also:volume of See also:Original Poems and See also:Translations, which contained little See also:work of any value. Its author in later days destroyed all the copies he found. In 1770 Beattie published his See also:Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth in opposition to sophistry and See also:scepticism, the object of which, as explained by its author, was to " prove the universality and immutability of moral sentiment " (See also:letter to See also:Sir W. See also:Forbes, 17th See also:January 1765). It was in fact a See also:direct attack on Hume, and See also:part of its See also:great popularity was due to the fact. Hume is said to have justly complained that Beattie " had not'used him like a See also:gentleman," but made no See also:answer to the See also:book, which has no philosophical value.
Beattie's portrait, by Sir See also:Joshua See also:Reynolds, hangs at Marischal College, Aberdeen. The philosopher is painted with the Essay on Truth in his See also:hand, while a figure of Truth thrusts down three figures representing, according to Sir W. Forbes, sophistry, scepticism and infidelity. Reynolds in a letter to Beattie (See also:February 1774) intimates that he is well enough pleased that one of the figures is identified with Hume, and that he intended See also:Voltaire to be one of the See also:group. Beattie visited See also:London in 1773, and was received with the greatest See also:honour by George III., who conferred on him a See also:pension of L20o a See also:year. In 1771 and 1774 he published the first and second parts of The See also:Minstrel, a poem which met with great and immediate success. The Spenserian See also:stanza in which it is written is managed with smoothness and skill, and there are many See also:fine descriptions of natural scenery. It is entirely on his See also:poetry that Beattie's reputation rests. The best known of his See also:minor poems are " The See also:Hermit " and " Retirement."
In 1773 he was offered the See also:chair of moral philosophy at See also:Edinburgh University, but did not accept it. Beattie made many See also:friends, and lost none. " We all love Beattie," said Dr See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson. " Mrs Thrale says, if ever she has another See also:husband she will have him." He was in high favour too with Mrs See also:Montagu and the other bas bleus.
Beattie was unfortunate in his domestic See also:life. See also:Mary Dunn, whom he married in 1767, became insane, and his two sons died just as they were attaining manhood. The elder, James See also:Hay Beattie, a young See also:man of great promise, who at the See also:age of nineteen had been associated with his father in his professorship, died in 1790. In 1794 the father published Essays and Fragments in See also:Prose and See also:Verse by James Hay Beattie with a
touching memoir. The younger brother died in 1796. Beattie never recovered from this second bereavement. His mind was seriously affected, and, although he continued to lecture occasionally, he neither wrote nor studied. In See also:April 1799 he had a stroke of See also:paralysis, and died on the 18th of See also:August 1803.
Beattie's other poetical See also:works include The See also:Judgment of See also:Paris (1765), and "Verses on the See also:death of [See also:Charles] See also:Churchill," a See also:bitter attack which the poet afterwards suppressed. The best edition is the Poetical Works (1831, new ed. 1866) in the Aldine Edition of the See also:British Poets, with an admirable memoir by Alexander See also:Dyce.
See also An See also:Account of the Life of James Beattie (1804), by A.
See also:Bower; and An Account of the Life and Writings of James Beattie (1807), by Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Forbes; a quantity of new material is to be found in Beattie and his Friends(19o4),by the poet's great-See also:grand-niece, See also:Margaret Forbes; and James Beattie, the Minstrel. Some Unpublished Letters, edited by A. Mackie (Aberdeen, 1908).
End of Article: BEATTIE, JAMES (1735—1803)
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