Towards Independence: Essays on ScotlandPolygon, 1991 - 220 páginas |
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... language in England itself was moribund and that the forms of it spoken and written elsewhere in the English - speaking world had more force and vitality . In these matters , it is always confusing that the same word , English , applies ...
... language in England itself was moribund and that the forms of it spoken and written elsewhere in the English - speaking world had more force and vitality . In these matters , it is always confusing that the same word , English , applies ...
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... language is a precious possession to be preserved , or if necessary restored , at all costs . But we should consider what in fact is at stake . In Scotland we have two such languages , Gaelic and Scots , and similar considerations apply ...
... language is a precious possession to be preserved , or if necessary restored , at all costs . But we should consider what in fact is at stake . In Scotland we have two such languages , Gaelic and Scots , and similar considerations apply ...
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... language that , if we lose the language , the qualities which it expresses are well on the way to being lost as well . The third point is the pleasure and expressiveness of Scots words in themselves . The language is full of words that ...
... language that , if we lose the language , the qualities which it expresses are well on the way to being lost as well . The third point is the pleasure and expressiveness of Scots words in themselves . The language is full of words that ...
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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