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... Scotland's last Lord High Chancellor was cynical or romantic . It was indeed the end of an auld sang , and an inglorious one at that . The plots and intrigues which paved the way for the unprec- edented act by which the Scottish ...
... Scotland's last Lord High Chancellor was cynical or romantic . It was indeed the end of an auld sang , and an inglorious one at that . The plots and intrigues which paved the way for the unprec- edented act by which the Scottish ...
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... Scotland ) adapted their religious ideas to an independ- ently conceived philosophy , and not the other way round . That is why philosophy had an extremely important influence on eighteenth- century religion in Scotland , but religion ...
... Scotland ) adapted their religious ideas to an independ- ently conceived philosophy , and not the other way round . That is why philosophy had an extremely important influence on eighteenth- century religion in Scotland , but religion ...
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... Scotland European . And in the remark of Hume's quoted at the beginning of this chapter we can see that interesting combination of shame , because of the Scots " corrupt dialect , " and desire to make Scotland a European rather than an ...
... Scotland European . And in the remark of Hume's quoted at the beginning of this chapter we can see that interesting combination of shame , because of the Scots " corrupt dialect , " and desire to make Scotland a European rather than an ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Chapter Two GROWTH OF A POET | 34 |
Chapter Three THE KILMARNOCK VOLUME | 105 |
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