Towards Independence: Essays on ScotlandPolygon, 1991 - 220 páginas |
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... described by John Buchan in these words : Many of the great academic figures had gone , but Dugald Stewart and John Playfair were alive ; there was a national school of science and philosophy as well as of letters , and there were ...
... described by John Buchan in these words : Many of the great academic figures had gone , but Dugald Stewart and John Playfair were alive ; there was a national school of science and philosophy as well as of letters , and there were ...
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... described as ' a most sensible and agreeable English gentleman ' and who lived in Edinburgh for a year or two about the middle of the eighteenth century . ' Here I stand ' , he said , ' at what is called the Cross of Edinburgh , and can ...
... described as ' a most sensible and agreeable English gentleman ' and who lived in Edinburgh for a year or two about the middle of the eighteenth century . ' Here I stand ' , he said , ' at what is called the Cross of Edinburgh , and can ...
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... described him as ' a man of signal probity and fine genius ' , and Sir John Dalrymple as one ' whose mind was inflamed with the love of public good , or all of whose ideas to procure it had a sublimity in them ' . Since his own lifetime ...
... described him as ' a man of signal probity and fine genius ' , and Sir John Dalrymple as one ' whose mind was inflamed with the love of public good , or all of whose ideas to procure it had a sublimity in them ' . Since his own lifetime ...
Contenido
1 | 19 |
The Discouraged Optimists | 25 |
The Scottish Malaise | 43 |
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achievement Adam Ferguson Adam Smith Andrew Fletcher arts attitude Blackwood's Boswell British Buchan Church civilisation Cockburn common consequence course cultural Declaration of Arbroath Democratic Intellect Dictionary diversity Edinburgh Edwin Muir effect eighteenth century Empire England English Eric Linklater Europe European everything example fact feeling Fletcher Gaelic Glasgow Government Hamilton Fyfe High School Highland historian Hugh MacDiarmid Hume ideas independence inferiority complex influence institutions intellectual interest James John John Buchan Kirk labour language Latin literary live London lost MacDiarmid Mackintosh Malachi Letters Malachi Malagrowther matter national character never nineteenth century Party perhaps poetry political published qualities reason Referendum remarkable responsibility Roman Saltire Society Scotland Scots Scotsman Scottish education Scottish Enlightenment Scottish literature Scottish National Scottish Parliament Scottish universities self-confidence sense severitas Sir Walter Scott social speech spirit thought tradition Union V. H. Galbraith wealth whole words writing wrote