Towards Independence: Essays on ScotlandPolygon, 1991 - 220 páginas |
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... eighteenth century to provide intellectual stimulus . Oxford and Cambridge , her only universities , were , in ... century . Most of the contemporary foreign influences were French or Dutch . T.B. Macaulay suggested that the explanation ...
... eighteenth century to provide intellectual stimulus . Oxford and Cambridge , her only universities , were , in ... century . Most of the contemporary foreign influences were French or Dutch . T.B. Macaulay suggested that the explanation ...
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... eighteenth century Scotland : " That so poor or thinly - peopled a country , should , in so short a period , have produced so many remarkable men , is extremely curious ' . It is less curious when you consider that a much higher ...
... eighteenth century Scotland : " That so poor or thinly - peopled a country , should , in so short a period , have produced so many remarkable men , is extremely curious ' . It is less curious when you consider that a much higher ...
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... eighteenth century said , ' Today the poet does not rub willing shoulders with the biologist , nor the mechanic with the academic . That is their mutual loss . ' It was otherwise in the Scotland of the eighteenth century . ' This ...
... eighteenth century said , ' Today the poet does not rub willing shoulders with the biologist , nor the mechanic with the academic . That is their mutual loss . ' It was otherwise in the Scotland of the eighteenth century . ' This ...
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1 | 19 |
The Discouraged Optimists | 25 |
The Scottish Malaise | 43 |
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Otras 14 secciones no mostradas
Términos y frases comunes
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