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Burns wrote in Scots, a dialect that looks familiar but confusing to modern English speakers (he penned "Auld Lang Syne," which most of us can pronounce but not interpret). In 1786, he published his first book of poems, on everything from religious hypocrisy to a typical Scottish Saturday night. The poems were catchy, sarcastic and light; the book was an instant success. Like a struggling actor who lands a part on a major sitcom, the fame came hard and fast - everybody in Scotland suddenly knew...
...historical romance-mystery story follows the arrogant Scottish painter Stewart Jameson and Fanny Easton, a fallen woman from a powerful Boston family who disguises herself as a defiant boy named Francis Weston...
...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 these 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...
...outstanding thinker” whose qualifications outweigh her “monster” remark. “In campaigns, people sometimes say things they would prefer they didn’t say,” Allison said. Power’s remark, given in an interview with a Scottish newspaper, stirred controversy last March. “She is a monster, too,” Power told the Scotsman. “She is stooping to anything.” Power told the Scotsman that Clinton would fight Obama unscrupulously for the Democratic nomination...
...kits retail at only $90, commercial coverage, which comes with a license to badge a company's products and premises with the SmartWater logo, can range from $4,000 up to six figures a year. Big-name clients include insurers Allianz, several high street retailers, and utility giants like Scottish Power and United Utilities, which use it to protect their stockyards...