 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 278 pages
...the Marischal College of Aberdeen ; in which capacity he published a work, entitled " An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism," 1770. Being written in a popular manner, it was much read, and gained the author many admirers, especially... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1843 - 776 pages
...respect due to merit and virtue. He died 1803. Besides his ' Minstrel,' lie published an ' Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism,' 1770, a work of great merit, and so forcible against David Hume's doctrines, that he never heard the name... | |
 | M. Matter - 1854 - 460 pages
...autant de faiblesse que Reid [Essays on the nature and immutability of Truth, in opposition to sopbistry and scepticism, 1770]. Oswald, leur contemporain,...absolue, l'existence d'un être divin [Appeal to common sense in behalf of religion, 1766]. Un théologien qui était physicien distingué, Priestley, né... | |
 | William Anderson - Heraldry - 1877 - 832 pages
...said by Sir William Forbes, to have been first published separately, and without a name. Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism. 1770, 8vo. Edin. 1771, 8vo. 1772, 1773. Loud. 1774, 8vo. 1776. The Minstrel, or the Progress of Genius ;... | |
 | Boston Mass, Athenaeum, libr - 1882 - 540 pages
...The; [by] L. Tieck. (In Carlyle, T. German romance, v. ¿¿. 1S'27.) Truth. B?:ATTIE, J. Essay on the nature and immutability of truth in opposition to sophistry and scepticism. [1770.] 3d ed. London, 1772. 8". .Same. 3d cd. Dublin, 1773. 8°. Seme. 6th cd. Edin., 1777. 8". Same. (In.... | |
 | Boston Athenaeum - American literature - 1882 - 528 pages
...Eckart, The; [by] L.Tieck. (In Carlyle, T. German romance, v. 2. 1827.) Truth. BEATTIE, J. Essay on the nature and immutability of truth in opposition to sophistry and scepticism. [1770.] 3d ed. London, 1772. 8°. Same. 3d ed. Dublin, 1773. 8°. Same. 6th ed. Edin., 1777. 8°. Same. (In... | |
 | Richard Hönigswald - Philosophy - 1923 - 318 pages
...Äonjeffionen an ben „common sense", immer beutlietjet unb bifferenjierter ^erbortritt 2). ') Essay on the nature and immutability of truth in opposition to sophistry and scepticism (1770), im Qoí)te 1776 im SSerein mit äftljetifdjen ©djriften unb einem Btel&erounbetten ©ebit^t „The... | |
 | E. S. Shaffer - History - 1980 - 376 pages
...the time of writing the Critique of Pure Reason he knew only through James Beattie's Essays on the Nature and Immutability of Truth in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism (1770). Yet as Hamann wrote to Herder in 1782: 'This much is certain: without Berkeley there would have been... | |
 | Lynn McDonald - Philosophy - 1996 - 412 pages
...would say vulgarized - by James Beattie (1735-1803), a virulent opponent of Hume. His Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth in opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism (1770) was a particularly nasty attack, contributing much to the misunderstanding of Hume's work. At the heart... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - Literature - 1995 - 1260 pages
...760), which already showed a Romantic attitude toward nature. He achieved fame with his Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism (1770), a vigorous defense of orthodoxy against the rationalism of David Hume. The next year he published the... | |
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Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism (1770), a vigorous defense of orthodoxy against the rationalism of David Hume, he achieved fame. 
