The Book of Scotsmen Eminent for Achievements in Arms and Arts, Church and State, Law, Legislation, and Literature, Commerce, Science, Travel, and PhilanthropyJoseph Irving A. Gardner, 1881 - 573 Seiten |
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... early in life a taste for drawing humorous scenes ; studied art with the Foulises at Glasgow , and then at Rome ; gained gold medal for historical composition , 1773 ; master of Edinburgh Art Academy , 1786 ; died there , aged 52. ( See ...
... early in life a taste for drawing humorous scenes ; studied art with the Foulises at Glasgow , and then at Rome ; gained gold medal for historical composition , 1773 ; master of Edinburgh Art Academy , 1786 ; died there , aged 52. ( See ...
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... early struggles in London , Mr. Black translated several works from the French and Italian . Died at Birling , near Town Malling , aged 72 . BLACK , Joseph , M.D. , Chemist . French born , but Scottish by descent and residence . Born on ...
... early struggles in London , Mr. Black translated several works from the French and Italian . Died at Birling , near Town Malling , aged 72 . BLACK , Joseph , M.D. , Chemist . French born , but Scottish by descent and residence . Born on ...
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... early to art , seeking instruction by copying the old masters in the National Gallery ; becomes scene- painter in Manchester , Glasgow and other cities ; removes from Glasgow to Hamilton , 1850 , where he devotes himself to the ...
... early to art , seeking instruction by copying the old masters in the National Gallery ; becomes scene- painter in Manchester , Glasgow and other cities ; removes from Glasgow to Hamilton , 1850 , where he devotes himself to the ...
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... Earliest Period to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection . " Secretary to Prison Board , 1854 , and ... Early Days of Sir William Wallace , " 1876 , and " The Burning of the Barns of Ayr , " 1878 . Nov. 16 , 1814- Mar ...
... Earliest Period to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection . " Secretary to Prison Board , 1854 , and ... Early Days of Sir William Wallace , " 1876 , and " The Burning of the Barns of Ayr , " 1878 . Nov. 16 , 1814- Mar ...
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... early in life ; published several poetical pieces and two novels , " The Only Daughter , " 1839 , and " The Cardinal Virtues , " 1841. Died at Montreux , Switzerland , aged 24 . Died . 1767 . April 6 , 1796 . 1818 . Feb. 1841 . Mar. 23 ...
... early in life ; published several poetical pieces and two novels , " The Only Daughter , " 1839 , and " The Cardinal Virtues , " 1841. Died at Montreux , Switzerland , aged 24 . Died . 1767 . April 6 , 1796 . 1818 . Feb. 1841 . Mar. 23 ...
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Seite 419 - The VOYAGE and SHIPWRECK of ST, PAUL; with Dissertations on the Life and Writings of St. Luke and the Ships and Navigation of the Ancients.
Seite 312 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied!" "I hope my country will do me justice!
Seite 467 - HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF DISCOVERY ON THE MORE NORTHERN COASTS OF NORTH AMERICA.
Seite 285 - CHARTERS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH AND HOSPITAL OF THE HOLY TRINITY AND THE TRINITY HOSPITAL, EDINBURGH, i460-i66i.
Seite 467 - Tytler, from his having projected a balloon ; a mortal, who, though he drudges about Edinburgh as a common printer, with leaky shoes, a sky-lighted hat, and kneebuckles as unlike as George-by-the-grace-ofGod, and Solomon-the-son-of-David ; yet that same unknown drunken mortal is author and compiler of three-fourths of Elliot's pompous Encyclopedia Britannica, which he composed at half a guinea a week ! SAE MERRY AS WE TWA HA'E BEEN.
Seite 35 - Isabel, second daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon, younger brother of William the Lion, whence arose the subsequent claim of his son to the Crown of Scotland. He died in 1245. 7. Robert de Brus, sixth Lord of Annandale, "the Competitor...
Seite 97 - Agnes inherited his vast estates ; and her husband assumed the additional title of Earl of Moray. Besides the earldom of Moray, the Earl of Dunbar and his Countess obtained the Isle of Man, the lordship of Annandale, the baronies of Morton and...
Seite 432 - The year after the death of his son, he relinquished his chair in the university, and removed to Kinneil House, a seat belonging to his Grace the Duke of Hamilton, on the Banks of the Firth of Forth, about twenty miles from Edinburgh, where he spent the remainder of his days in philosophical retirement. From this place were dated, in succession, the Philosophical Essays in 1810; the second volume of the Philosophy of the Human Mind...
Seite 466 - The Poetical Remains of James I., King of Scotland," with a Dissertation on the Life and Writings of that monarch...
Seite 412 - Satan's Invisible World Discovered, or a Choice Collection of Relations anent Devils, Spirits, Witches, and Apparitions,