A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, 第 7 卷Blackie, 1855 |
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第 156 頁
... acquired . " Frae twenty - five to five and forty , My muse was neither sweer nor dorty , My Pegasus would break his tether , E'en at the shaking of a feather ; And through ideas scour like drift , Streking his wings up to the lift ...
... acquired . " Frae twenty - five to five and forty , My muse was neither sweer nor dorty , My Pegasus would break his tether , E'en at the shaking of a feather ; And through ideas scour like drift , Streking his wings up to the lift ...
第 159 頁
... acquired considerable wealth , which , it appears , he used in a liberal spirit . When his father died in 1757 , in somewhat embarrassed circumstances , he paid his debts , settling , at the same time , a pension on his unmarried sister ...
... acquired considerable wealth , which , it appears , he used in a liberal spirit . When his father died in 1757 , in somewhat embarrassed circumstances , he paid his debts , settling , at the same time , a pension on his unmarried sister ...
第 160 頁
... acquired some property , and was able to give him a good education . From the school of his native burgh , he was removed to the university of Edinburgh , where he became distinguished for his abilities and diligence . In consequence of ...
... acquired some property , and was able to give him a good education . From the school of his native burgh , he was removed to the university of Edinburgh , where he became distinguished for his abilities and diligence . In consequence of ...
第 163 頁
... acquired over the propensity . While he remained at Marischal college , Reid was appointed to the librarian- ship , which his ancestor had founded . During this period , he formed an inti- macy with John Stewart , afterwards professor ...
... acquired over the propensity . While he remained at Marischal college , Reid was appointed to the librarian- ship , which his ancestor had founded . During this period , he formed an inti- macy with John Stewart , afterwards professor ...
第 166 頁
... acquired , which prompts us to believe one thing , and disbelieve another . Hence it might be said , in common language , that , instead of making his inquiries by means of subtle and metaphysical reasonings , he stated his views ...
... acquired , which prompts us to believe one thing , and disbelieve another . Hence it might be said , in common language , that , instead of making his inquiries by means of subtle and metaphysical reasonings , he stated his views ...
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第 286 頁 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
第 374 頁 - As a writer he is entitled to one praise of the highest kind: his mode of thinking, and of expressing his thoughts, is original. His blank verse is no more the blank verse of Milton, or of any other poet, than the rhymes of Prior are the rhymes of Cowley.
第 290 頁 - He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world, or for the business of active life. The comprehensive speculations with which he had .been occupied from his youth, and the variety of materials which his own invention continually...
第 252 頁 - We do also resolve to protect and preserve the government of the Church of Scotland, as it is settled by law...
第 288 頁 - I should in another discourse endeavour to give an account of the general principles of law and government, and of the different revolutions which they had undergone in the different ages and periods of society; not only in what concerns justice, but in what concerns police, revenue, and arms, and whatever else is the object of law.
第 279 頁 - In the third part, he treated at more length of that branch of morality which relates to justice, and which, being susceptible of precise and accurate rules, is for that reason capable of a full and particular explanation.
第 374 頁 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature beitows only on a poet; the eye that distinguishes, in every thing presented to its view, whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained, and with a mind that at once comprehends the vast and attends to the minute.
第 163 頁 - By Dr Blair's means I have been • fee. In particular, the article " Txulcncc" ш the " Encyclopédie.'1 favoured with the perusal of your performance, which I have read with great pleasure and attention. It is certainly very rare...
第 286 頁 - By means of glasses, hotbeds, and hot-walls, very good grapes can be raised- in Scotland, and very good wine too can be made of them at about thirty times the expense for which at least equally good can be brought from foreign countries.
第 375 頁 - The poet leads us through the appearances of things as they are successively varied by the vicissitudes of the year, and imparts to us so much of his own enthusiasm that our thoughts expand with his imagery and kindle with his sentiments.