Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society, Tom 2The Society, 1896 |
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... knowledge , and had led a busy , restless , adventurous life , to announce , in so many words , that ignorance is bliss , was to startle his contemporaries out of their self - complacency . And even after the lapse of three centuries it ...
... knowledge , and had led a busy , restless , adventurous life , to announce , in so many words , that ignorance is bliss , was to startle his contemporaries out of their self - complacency . And even after the lapse of three centuries it ...
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... knowledge . For him the study of material things was not learning or philosophy , but mechanic art . He did not realise what an amount of imagination , insight , knowledge , reflection , experience , contrivance , manipulative dexterity ...
... knowledge . For him the study of material things was not learning or philosophy , but mechanic art . He did not realise what an amount of imagination , insight , knowledge , reflection , experience , contrivance , manipulative dexterity ...
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... knowledge of the original ; but in others there may be a preface , or imprint , or variation , which will lighten up a biographical , historical , literary , chronological or bibliographical doubt , and the light may be reflected off to ...
... knowledge of the original ; but in others there may be a preface , or imprint , or variation , which will lighten up a biographical , historical , literary , chronological or bibliographical doubt , and the light may be reflected off to ...
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... knowledge . The latter , indeed , had either not been invented at all , or were less perfect , in proportion to the amount of science required . The branch of literature represented in these notes is quite unknown to the historians and ...
... knowledge . The latter , indeed , had either not been invented at all , or were less perfect , in proportion to the amount of science required . The branch of literature represented in these notes is quite unknown to the historians and ...
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... past civilization the present is most in touch , most appreciates , feels to be truest and most real . In this more civilized age , with incalculably wider and profounder knowledge of all kinds , with a more thoroughgoing search 31.
... past civilization the present is most in touch , most appreciates , feels to be truest and most real . In this more civilized age , with incalculably wider and profounder knowledge of all kinds , with a more thoroughgoing search 31.
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Aldie ancient Andrews antiquarian antiquary antiquities appears appended archæology Archbishop Arthur Mitchell Bain barmkin Bishop building Bulls burgh Burghead called canopy castle Cathedral century chapter-house Charter Christian church Clavie contains copy Council counter-seal described Dumfries Earl early Edinburgh edition English engraved F.S.A. Scot fact feet figure fish French Glasgow GLASGOW CATHEDRAL Glasguensis Goclenius Greek ground HALICARNASSOS Hoddom Inchcolm inches inscription interest James James Beaton John Johnston Kentigern Kilwinning King lands later Latin legend literature Lochmaben London Lord mentioned Museum Norsemen original paper papingo parish peel pele Picts powder of sympathy present printed probably Provost referred Robert Robert Wishart Roman Rutherglen says Scotichronicon Scotland Scottish sculptured seal secrets Selkirkshire shield side Society stone tails temple thurible tower town translation Traquair volume wall William Wishart word Wyntoun Zimara Zimbabwe
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