Transactions
Title | Transactions PDF eBook |
Author | Inverness Gaelic Society |
Publisher | |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Celtic literature |
ISBN |
List of members in each vol.
Life on the Shore
Title | Life on the Shore PDF eBook |
Author | Alex C. Thomson |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 125 |
Release | 2010-07-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1445786591 |
Life on the shore is a step back to the 50's and 60's in and around the villages of Blairmore, Strone and Kilmun. The book takes the reader through his life on the shore on the beautiful west coast of Scotland
The History of the year; a narrative of the chief events and topics of interest
Title | The History of the year; a narrative of the chief events and topics of interest PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 1882 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
“The” Academy
Title | “The” Academy PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 656 |
Release | 1882 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Sutherland Evictions of 1814
Title | The Sutherland Evictions of 1814 PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Sellar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 1883 |
Genre | Land tenure |
ISBN |
The Academy and Literature
Title | The Academy and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 668 |
Release | 1882 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
John Stuart Blackie
Title | John Stuart Blackie PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Wallace |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2006-05-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0748628193 |
John Stuart Blackie was one of the most impressive and influential figures of nineteenth-century Scotland, as well as one of the most striking and flamboyant. As an intellectual he translated Goethe's Faust and brought first-hand knowledge of German philosophy to Scotland as a means of keeping the Enlightenment tradition alive. As first Professor of Humanity at Aberdeen from 1839 to 1852 and then as Professor of Greek at Edinburgh until 1882, he played a, perhaps the, central role in modernising the Scottish university curriculum, removing the dead hand of theological orthodoxy, raising standards (and the entry age), introducing tutorial teaching and establishing new chairs (including the Edinburgh chair of Celtic). His role in the reform of secondary school teaching was equally central. But Blackie was also a great 'public man', corresponding with great and famous throughout Great Britain and Europe, from Goethe and Carlyle to Ruskin and Gladstone, and filling the pages of newspapers and journals with writings on the major issues of the day. For the last thirty years of his life he became closely involved in issues of Scottish nationalism and home rule, and as champion of the crofters is largely responsible for their contemporary survival and unique status. Despite the existence of a rich archive of his papers and letters, there has been only one book devoted to his life: The Life of Professor John Stuart Blackie, the most distinguished Scotsman of the day, edited by J. G. Duncan and published in 1895.