Word: shairp
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...characteristic ballad. Mention has already been made of Mr. Hougnton's style. Many of his lines are very striking. But there is a peculiar introspective tendency here discernable which is calculated to inspire an interest in the writer's philosophy. A critical essay by Mr. Fullerton, on Principal Shairp, is a uniform, well digested, though somewhat rambling, review of his life and thoughts. While the writer, perhaps, ranks the author of "Kilmahoe" too high among his contemporaries, the paper on the whole is calm and gives evidence of interest...
...famous men on the street, and it seems as natural as the sight of ordinary men elsewhere. Benjamin Jowett, the translator of Plato and the Vice Chancellor of the University, Max Muller, the greatest living writer on comparative religion ; Cannon Liddon, the first preacher in the English church; Principal Shairp, the another of "Culture and Religion ;" John Ruskin, Bonamy Price, and a host of others equally distinguished, attract but little attention. But having said so much for Oxford, patriotism leads me to add one word more. I believe that the average education afforded at both Harvard and Yale...
...noted scholars and professors of England of today Oxford has Max Muller, George Rawlinson, Benj. Jewett and J. C. Shairp; Cambridge, Professors Seeley and Fawcett; the University of London has Professors Ward, Henry Morley, Schmitz, Lankester, Bobertson and Thorold Rogers. In Scotland, Alex. Bain, Principal Tulloch, Peter Baynes and David Mason; and Dowden, the Shakesperean scholar, is at Dublin...