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Dugald Stewart   /dˈəgəld stˈuərt/   Listen
Dugald Stewart

noun
1.
Scottish philosopher and follower of Thomas Reid (1753-1828).  Synonym: Stewart.






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... at our command enable us to supply. She was the third daughter of the Hon. George Cranstoun, youngest son of William, fifth Lord Cranstoun. She was born in the year 1765, and became the wife of Professor Dugald Stewart on the 26th July 1790. Having survived her husband ten years, she died at Warriston House, in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, on the 28th of July 1838. She was the sister of the Countess Purgstall (the subject of Captain Basil Hall's "Schloss Hainfeld"), and of George Cranstoun, a senator of ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various

... broad expanse of the Firth of Forth, and commanding an extensive view of the country along its northern shores. The place has become in a measure classical, Kinneil House having been inhabited, since Dr. Roebuck's time, by Dugald Stewart, who there wrote his Philosophical Essays.[3] When Dr. Roebuck began to sink for coal at the new mines, he found it necessary to erect pumping-machinery of the most powerful kind that could be contrived, in order to keep the mines clear of water. For this purpose the ...
— Industrial Biography - Iron Workers and Tool Makers • Samuel Smiles



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