The Story of the University of Edinburgh During Its First Three Hundred Years, 2권

앞표지
Longmans, Green, and Company, 1884 - 127페이지
 

목차


기타 출판본 - 모두 보기

자주 나오는 단어 및 구문

인기 인용구

424 페이지 - His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
371 페이지 - ... law, formed originally under the strictest influence of feudal principles, and innovated, altered, and broken in upon by the change of times, of habits, and of manners, until it resembles some ancient castle, partly entire, partly ruinous, partly dilapidated, patched, and altered, during the succession of ages, by a thousand additions and combinations...
355 페이지 - I have read over Dr. Blair's first sermon with more than approbation ; to say it is good, is to say too little.
198 페이지 - Throne, whom, with gratitude we reckon among the most munificent of our royal benefactors, and cherished by the continued attention and good offices of our Honourable Patrons, this University can now boast of the number and variety of its institutions for the instruction of youth in all the branches of literature and science.
331 페이지 - The tones of his voice were themselves attractive, physiognomic of the man : a strong, carelessly-melodious tenor voice, the sound of it betokening seriousness and cheerfulness. Occasionally something of slightly remonstrative was in the undertones, indicating, •well in the background, possibilities of virtuous wrath and fire ; seldom anything of laughter, of levity never anything : thoroughly a serious cheerful, sincere, and kindly voice, with looks corresponding.
295 페이지 - Newtonian philosophy ; while we at Cambridge, poor wretches, were ignominiously studying the fictitious hypotheses of the Cartesian, which Sir Isaac Newton had also himself done formerly, as I have heard him say.
145 페이지 - Under penalties graver than I, or any highest mortal, can pretend to impose, but which I can never doubt — as the law of eternal justice, inexorably valid, whether noticed or unnoticed, pervades all corners of space and of time — are very sure to be punctually exacted if incurred, this is to be the perpetual rule for the Senatus in deciding.
348 페이지 - ... same plan, as the only effectual method of ascertaining the general principles of the human frame : and illustrating happily, by his own profound and eloquent disquisitions, the application of such studies, to the conduct of the understanding, and to the great concerns of life. I recollect, too, when I attended, about the year 1771, the lectures of the late Mr. Russell, to have heard high encomiums on the Philosophy of Reid, in the course of those comprehensive discussions concerning the objects...
340 페이지 - To me his lectures were like the opening of the heavens. I felt that I had a soul. His noble views, unfolded in glorious sentences, elevated me into a higher world.
372 페이지 - Hume been to the Law of Scotland, neither wandering into fanciful and abstruse disquisitions which are the more proper subject of the antiquary, nor satisfied with presenting to his pupils a dry and undigested detail of the laws in their present state, but combining the past state of our legal enactments with the present and tracing clearly and judiciously the changes which took place and the causes which led to them.

도서 문헌정보