The Lives of the Scotish Poets: With Preliminary Dissertations on the Literary History of Scotland, and the Early Scotish Drama, Том 2 |
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... without taking any care to restore them : Upon which the university ( as they
had good reason ) declined lending any more , till forced to it by a mandate which
he made a shift to procure from the king . In other places he likewise pillaged the
...
... without taking any care to restore them : Upon which the university ( as they
had good reason ) declined lending any more , till forced to it by a mandate which
he made a shift to procure from the king . In other places he likewise pillaged the
...
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In the folio edition published at Edinburgh in 1710 , the numerous errors of the
former are carefully corrected from a MS . belonging to the public library of the
university . To this edition , undertaken at the expence of Freebairn and Symson ,
an ...
In the folio edition published at Edinburgh in 1710 , the numerous errors of the
former are carefully corrected from a MS . belonging to the public library of the
university . To this edition , undertaken at the expence of Freebairn and Symson ,
an ...
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He received , says Dr Mackenzie , his academical education in the University of
St Andrews , and afterwards travelled through England , France , Italy , and
Germanyb . With the mode in which this biographer discovered the place of his ...
He received , says Dr Mackenzie , his academical education in the University of
St Andrews , and afterwards travelled through England , France , Italy , and
Germanyb . With the mode in which this biographer discovered the place of his ...
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... the persecution which prevailed in Scotland compelled John Macbeth , with
Alexander Hales ' and other scholars , to fly for refuge to foreign countries : and
he is reported to have obtained a professorship in the University of Copenhagen
* .
... the persecution which prevailed in Scotland compelled John Macbeth , with
Alexander Hales ' and other scholars , to fly for refuge to foreign countries : and
he is reported to have obtained a professorship in the University of Copenhagen
* .
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In the course of the sixteenth century classical and theological learning had
begun to be more generally diffused : many of our countrymen , after having
visited the continental universities , had at : length returned to disseminate the
principles ...
In the course of the sixteenth century classical and theological learning had
begun to be more generally diffused : many of our countrymen , after having
visited the continental universities , had at : length returned to disseminate the
principles ...
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