Word: scotland
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...narrowness that is extraordinary. Philosophy aims at the truth, and it is the truth that the philosophic student wants. He does not want the philosophy that may best suite the nature of his country. Dr. McCosh cites the rule of Kaut in Germany, Des Cartes in France, Reid in Scotland, etc., as examples of this nationalistic tendency of philosophy. A German philosophy thus should be one that shows the deep thought and idealism of the country; an English philosophy should be matter of fact; a French philosophy light and fantastic, and so through the whole category. The absurdity...
...James Russell Lowell, in his hours of ease smokes a common clay pipe, although he offers to his guests the finest Havana cigars. The practice is quite common in England and Scotland, where, however, the clay is much softer and more porous than that usually found in pipes sold in this country, - Harpers Weekly...
...devided between them In witness whereof I have unto every sheete being seaven in number put to my hand and have sealed the same this second daye of Julie in the eleaventh yeare of the reigne of our Souaigne Lord Charles by the grace of God of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland King Defender of the faith &c. Annoq Dni 1635. The marke...
...every 5000, in England, takes a college course; in Scotland, one in 615; in Germany, one in 213: in the United States...
...cause of the Barous against the King. These universities have always been generously endowed, and the scholarships and fellowships of Oxford now amount to about L500,000 a year. The University of Dublin consists of but one college, Trimty, and the curriculum is similar to that of Oxford. Scotland also possesses four freak universities, St. Andrews, Glasgow, A Bergen, and Edlburgh, and is well supplied with other institutions of learning, most of which were founded in the fifteenth century. These colleges are more crossly a lined to the German system of education, than to the English...