Sir William Hamilton: The Man and His Philosophy : Two Lectures Delivered Before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, January and February 1883W. Blackwood, 1883 - 68 pages |
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... speculation or thought on such a system , even had the state of the country been tranquil , free from those devastating English wars , those civil broils , those constant revolutions in State and 6 Sir William Hamilton .
... speculation or thought on such a system , even had the state of the country been tranquil , free from those devastating English wars , those civil broils , those constant revolutions in State and 6 Sir William Hamilton .
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... English was substituted for dictation in Latin . There was also in the country greater calm and leisure for reflection ; and now it was that there arose the first movement of that free thought and independent examination of the great ...
... English was substituted for dictation in Latin . There was also in the country greater calm and leisure for reflection ; and now it was that there arose the first movement of that free thought and independent examination of the great ...
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... English composition . But there was the Snell Exhibition there , which had already enabled Adam Smith and Archibald Alison to go to Oxford . Hamilton was preferred to this exhibition , and he went to Oxford in 1807. Intellectual life ...
... English composition . But there was the Snell Exhibition there , which had already enabled Adam Smith and Archibald Alison to go to Oxford . Hamilton was preferred to this exhibition , and he went to Oxford in 1807. Intellectual life ...
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... English prejudice against Scotsmen , even in the present century , and that in a seat of learning , where we might expect at least men to be regarded for their qualities as men and scholars . The prospects of life at this time for ...
... English prejudice against Scotsmen , even in the present century , and that in a seat of learning , where we might expect at least men to be regarded for their qualities as men and scholars . The prospects of life at this time for ...
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... English Universities , " and " Oxford , ” — “ The Right of Dissenters to admission into the English Universities . " The essay on the " Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum , " 1831 , the national satire of Germany , represents his curious ...
... English Universities , " and " Oxford , ” — “ The Right of Dissenters to admission into the English Universities . " The essay on the " Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum , " 1831 , the national satire of Germany , represents his curious ...
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