History of the University of Edinburgh [ed. by D. LaingEdmonston and Douglas, 1862 - 280 Seiten |
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Seite 206 - wherein," says he, " he had given the most prodigious commendations to that work, as not only right in all things, but in a manner the effect of a plainly divine genius ; and had already caused several of his scholars to keep Acts, as we call them, upon several branches of the Newtonian philosophy ; while we at Cambridge, poor wretches ! were ignominiously studying the fictitious hypotheses of the Cartesian, which Sir Isaac Newton had also himself done formerly, as I have heard him say.
Seite 27 - All the world," replied the king, " knows that my master, George Buchanan, was a great master in that faculty. I follow his pronunciation both of the Latin and Greek, and am sorry that my people of England do not the like ; for certainly their pronunciation utterly spoils the grace of those two learned languages. But you see all the university, and learned men of Scotland, express the true and native pronunciation of both.
Seite 25 - Fairlie ; * his thesis had some fairlies in it, and he sustained them very fairly, and with many fair lies given to the oppugners. And why should not Mr Sands be the first to enter the sands ? But now I clearly see that all sands are not barren, for certainly he hath shewn a fertile wit.
Seite 113 - Sibbald, a doctor of physic, and the most learned antiquary in Scotland, who had lived in a course of philosophical virtue, but in great doubts as to revealed religion, was prevailed on by the earl of Perth to turn papist, in hopes to find that certainty among them, which he could not arrive at upon his own principles.
Seite 204 - Edinburgh, to fill the chair of mathematics in thai university. This place he had held but little more than a year, when, in October 1675, being employed in shewing the satellites of Jupiter through a telescope to some of his pupils, he was suddenly struck with total blindness, and died a few days after, to the great loss of the mathematical world, at only 37 years of age.
Seite 78 - That for the remedy of the great decay of Poesie, and of ability to make verse, and in respect of the common ignorance of Prosody, no School Master be admitted to teach a Grammar School, in Burghs or other considerable Parishes, but such as, after examination, shall be found skilful in the Latin tongue, not only for prose, but also for verse...
Seite 26 - I held to it, and caused it to be established; and although I see many look upon it with an evil eye, yet I will have them know that, having given it my name, I have espoused its quarrel, and at a proper time will give it a royal god-bairn gift to enlarge its revenues.
Seite 118 - Presbyterian Inquisition, as it was lately practised against the Professors of the College of Edinburgh, August and September 1690...
Seite 34 - Patron of the said College, and of the said College, and of the Rectors, Regents, Bursars, and Students, within the same, all liberties, freedoms, immunities, and privileges, appertaining to a free College, and that in as ample form and large manner as any College