Word: scottishly
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...vague generality under fire, take the typical example, "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what...
...years at the State University of New York, New Paltz, Ashokan Field Campus in the Catskill Mountains. It was shortly after the conclusion of the 1982 session that Ungar, feeling particularly sad, reached for his fiddle and cassette recorder and set down Ashokan Farewell. Inspired musically by 19th century Scottish laments, Ungar's song was "so special that I didn't play it for anyone who wasn't a close friend. I had strong feelings about how it might affect people. I was in tears when I composed...
...vague generality under fire, take the typical example, "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what...
...prominent businessmen. Former Guinness PLC chairman Ernest Saunders was sentenced to five years in prison for masterminding an illegal operation to boost the stock price of the famed $11.6 billion brewing and distilling group and thus helping the company win its successful $5.23 billion takeover battle for Distillers, the Scottish liquor maker. Investigators first became aware of the Guinness scheme, described as one of the biggest financial scandals in British history, when U.S. inside-trader Ivan Boesky disclosed some of the details...
...vague generality under fire, take the typical example, "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what...