"Scottish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Highly Idealist Philosophy which Regarded Matter as Non-existent. David Hume: Sceptical Philosophy. The Scottish School: ...
— Initiation into Philosophy • Emile Faguet
... on an episode in Canadian history which I found an interesting study, namely, the disbanding of a regiment of Scottish soldiers in the neighborhood of Rimouski and the district about Father Point. Many of these stalwart sons of old Scotia who were thus left adrift strangers in a strange land accepted the situation philosophically, ...
— Marie Gourdon - A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence • Maud Ogilvy
... the principal events which had interested Lady John in the past year had been the secession from the Scottish Church and the establishment of the. Free Church of Scotland. Her feelings about it are expressed in this letter to her sister, ...
— Lady John Russell • Desmond MacCarthy and Agatha Russell
... honour, beside his own father.' A great number of other famous people were buried here in accordance with their wills. Guisborough has even been claimed as the resting place of Robert Bruce, the champion of Scottish freedom, but there is ample evidence for believing that his heart was buried at Melrose Abbey and his body in ...
— Yorkshire Painted And Described • Gordon Home
... brays are bonnie, When Greek they'd fain taboo; And 'tis here that Doctor LAURIE Gi'es utterance strictly true, Gi'es utterance strictly true, Which ne'er forgot should be, And for bonnie Doctor LAURIE, A Scottish boy would dee. ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101. October 3rd, 1891 • Various
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