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ADMITTED advantage Advocate Afterwards Doctor Afterwards Sir Afterwards Writer ALEXANDER ancient ANDREW Appointed Sheriff April Arts Author AYTOUN BALFOUR Baronet BONAR Born Britain British Brougham BRUCE Called CAMPBELL Carried unanimously Causes Character Charles Church CLEGHORN CLERK constitution Court DAVID death debate December 13 Died Doctor of Medicine DOUGLAS DROPT DUNLOP eloquence England English Bar ESSAYS ESSAYS.-The established Europe expedient EXTRAORDINARY favourable February February 21 FERGUSON France GEORGE Glasgow GORDON HAMILTON HENRY History HONORARY honour Horner India institution Ireland JAMES MONCREIFF January January 16 January 20 JOHN justifiable Large Paper M'NEILL MACKINTOSH MACONOCHIE MAITLAND March March 29 Member of Parliament Messrs MILLER Moral MURRAY nature NON-RESIDENT November 19 November 25 Philosophy political present President Professor REID RESIGNED ROBERT ROBERTSON RUSSELL Scot Scotland Scottish Bar Session Signet Speculative Society Stewart THOMAS THOMSON tion TYTLER University of Edinburgh WHYTT WILLIAM Younger
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第 106 頁 - ... and utility as a teacher ; both by enabling him to direct his pupils to the most simple and luminous methods of inquiry, and to imbue their minds, from the very commencement of the study, with that fine relish for the truths it disclosed, and that high sense of the majesty with which they were invested, that predominated in his own bosom. While he left nothing unexplained or unreduced to its proper place in the system, he took care that they should never be perplexed by petty difficulties, or...
第 105 頁 - If he did not signalize himself by any brilliant or original invention, he must, at least, be allowed to have been a most generous and intelligent judge of the achievements of others, as well as the most eloquent expounder of that great and magnificent system of knowledge which has been gradually evolved by the successive labours of so many gifted individuals. He possessed, indeed, in the highest degree, all the characteristics both of a fine and a powerful understanding, — at once penetrating...
第 262 頁 - But he is experienced in debate, quick in reply, fertile in resource, takes large views, and frequently compensates for a dry and hesitating manner by the expression of those noble truths that flash across the fancy, and rise spontaneously to the lip, of men of poetic temperament when addressing popular assemblies.
第 118 頁 - ... of a thought to be afterwards unfolded, unobservedly heightens the import of a word, and gives it a new meaning, without any offence against old use. It is in this manner that philosophical originality may be reconciled to...
第 107 頁 - Character which endeared him to his friends, and shed a grace and a dignity over all the society in which he moved. The same admirable taste which is conspicuous in his writings, or rather the higher principles from which that taste was but an emanation, spread a similar charm over his whole life and conversation ; and gave to the most learned Philosopher of his day the manners and deportment of the most perfect Gentleman.
第 262 頁 - ... his reading and experience ; and to take those comprehensive views, which, however easily depreciated by ordinary men in an age of routine, are indispensable to a statesman in the conjunctures in which we live. He understands, therefore, his position ; and he has the moral intrepidity which prompts him ever to dare that which his intellect assures him is politic. He is consequently, at the same time, sagacious and bold in council. As an administrator he is prompt and indefatigable.
第 133 頁 - We have purposely selected this theory of dew, first developed by the late Dr. Wells, as one of the most beautiful specimens we can call to mind of inductive experimental enquiry lying within a moderate compass.
第 200 頁 - We saw, for the first time, Playfair and Jeffrey; the first a person very remarkable for understanding, calmness, and simplicity; the second more lively, fertile, and brilliant than any Scotchman of letters, with more imagery and illustration, added to the knowledge and argumentative powers of his country, and more sure than any native of this island whom I have seen, to have had splendid success in the literary societies of Paris.
第 215 頁 - ... any age or nation to intrinsic claims alone. A Howard introduced, and an English House of Commons adopted, the proposition, of thus honouring the memory of a man of thirty-eight, the son of a shopkeeper, who never filled an office, or had the power of obliging a living creature, and whose grand title to this distinction was the belief of his virtue. How honourable to the age and to the House ! A country where such sentiments prevail is not ripe for destruction.
第 214 頁 - ... addressed to the consideration of Parliament. When, however, they are blended, interwoven, and incorporated in the character of a public man, they become a species of public property, and by their influence and example essentially augment the general stock of public virtue. For his qualifications as a public man I can confidently appeal to a wider circle — to that learned profession of which he was a distinguished ornament — to this House, where his exertions will be long remembered with...