Author: John Stuart BlackiePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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The Letters of John Stuart Blackie to His Wife
Author: John Stuart BlackieThe Letters of John Stuart Blackie to His Wife
Author: John Stuart BlackieJohn Stuart Blackie
Author: Stuart WallacePublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748628193
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
John Stuart Blackie was one of the most impressive and influential figures of nineteenth-century Scotland, as well as one of the most striking and flamboyant. As an intellectual he translated Goethe's Faust and brought first-hand knowledge of German philosophy to Scotland as a means of keeping the Enlightenment tradition alive. As first Professor of Humanity at Aberdeen from 1839 to 1852 and then as Professor of Greek at Edinburgh until 1882, he played a, perhaps the, central role in modernising the Scottish university curriculum, removing the dead hand of theological orthodoxy, raising standards (and the entry age), introducing tutorial teaching and establishing new chairs (including the Edinburgh chair of Celtic). His role in the reform of secondary school teaching was equally central. But Blackie was also a great 'public man', corresponding with great and famous throughout Great Britain and Europe, from Goethe and Carlyle to Ruskin and Gladstone, and filling the pages of newspapers and journals with writings on the major issues of the day. For the last thirty years of his life he became closely involved in issues of Scottish nationalism and home rule, and as champion of the crofters is largely responsible for their contemporary survival and unique status. Despite the existence of a rich archive of his papers and letters, there has been only one book devoted to his life: The Life of Professor John Stuart Blackie, the most distinguished Scotsman of the day, edited by J. G. Duncan and published in 1895.
The Life of Sir Edward FitzGerald Law, K.C.S.I., K.C.M.G.
Author: Sir Theodore MorisonPublisher:
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Category : Diplomats
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Saints, Sinners, and the Usual People
Author: St. John LucasBulletin of the Pratt Institute Free Library
Author: Pratt Institute. Free LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Co-operative Bulletin
Author: Pratt Institute. LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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A Critical Essay on European Literature
Author: James LindsayPublisher:
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Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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The Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1894
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Monsieur Carnifex
Author: Alexander CrawfordPublisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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