A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen, 第 7 卷Blackie, 1855 |
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... sent , for the farther prosecution of his studies , to Aberdeen , where , at the age of twelve or thirteen , he was entered as a student of Marischal college . Little is known of his early studies or qualifications , with the exception ...
... sent , for the farther prosecution of his studies , to Aberdeen , where , at the age of twelve or thirteen , he was entered as a student of Marischal college . Little is known of his early studies or qualifications , with the exception ...
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... sent over , and admitted into the university of Groningen . After he had attended six months , the progress he had made was such , together with the urgency of the case , ( for the societies had not so much as one preacher all this time ...
... sent over , and admitted into the university of Groningen . After he had attended six months , the progress he had made was such , together with the urgency of the case , ( for the societies had not so much as one preacher all this time ...
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... sent as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary . He remained in the Russian capital from 1768 till 1772 , during which time he acted also as secretary to Lord Cathcart . In the latter year , he returned with his only surviving ...
... sent as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary . He remained in the Russian capital from 1768 till 1772 , during which time he acted also as secretary to Lord Cathcart . In the latter year , he returned with his only surviving ...
第 180 頁
... sent him , " as a monument of his friendship and attach- ment , " a very handsomely bound copy of his works , as " I wish you to possess them in their most perfect form , as I purpose they should be transmitted to posterity ; " and he ...
... sent him , " as a monument of his friendship and attach- ment , " a very handsomely bound copy of his works , as " I wish you to possess them in their most perfect form , as I purpose they should be transmitted to posterity ; " and he ...
第 184 頁
... sent along with him recommendations to Dr Blair , Prebendary of Westminster , who might have had influence to procure for him the situation of tutor in mathematics and navigation to the It may further be mentioned , that his niece ...
... sent along with him recommendations to Dr Blair , Prebendary of Westminster , who might have had influence to procure for him the situation of tutor in mathematics and navigation to the It may further be mentioned , that his niece ...
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Aberdeen acquaintance acquired afterwards Allan Ramsay Anwoth appeared appointed army Assembly attended became bishop bishop of Glasgow called castle celebrated character church church of Scotland circumstances commenced considerable court daughter death divinity Dr Smith Dr Strang duties earl early Edinburgh edition eminent Encyclopædia Britannica engine England English father favour friends genius Glasgow honour interest John king labours learned letter literary London lord lord Bute manner Marischal college Mary memoir ment merit mind minister moral native nature never occasion parish party period person philosophy poem poet possessed presbytery principles proceeded procured profession professor published queen Ramsay received remarkable residence respect returned Robert Ruddiman Scotland Scots Scottish Sir Walter Scott Smellie Smollett society soon Spotswood St Andrews steam Stewart talents tion took Tytler university of Edinburgh university of Glasgow volumes Wallace Watt William writings young
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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.