"The Book" is not to be accepted as either a Scottish Bibliography Then, in the case o( authorsĪnd artists, a few of their best-known works are mentioned but Guides to the Church, the Bench, and the Bar, may be in the This has already been well and fully done in variousĬompilations of easy access. Member, yet no pretension is made to mere genealogical or family The names of most of the old historicalįamilies will be found represented by some specially prominent It is hoped, so far as it goes, but, at the same time, suggestive Will be found essentially a Brief Dictionary - reasonably accurate, For the avoidance of another kind of error, a The same time fitted to be of vast use to the general as well as to the Single families, might all be made full of interesting details, and at The Biography of Counties or Shires, of Parishes, and even of See more complete and recent than anything presently existing. People of kindred race or interest, it has been thought better toĭesign the book only as a contribution to the Biographical History Tendency of modern civilizing influences being to draw together Her own legal, ecclesiastical, and municipal systems yet preserved inĪll their bristling peculiarities, there might be much interesting in-įormation conveyed by working on such lines but the whole With old Scottish traditions still influencing national life, and with Men in the way of challenge to other divisions of the Kingdom. Minister to national vanity by exhibiting the achievements of Scots. The design of this hand-book will be greatly misunderstood, andĮven some measure of injustice, unconsciously it may be, directedĪgainst the Compiler if it is looked upon in any light as intended to Full text of " The book of Scotsmen eminent for achievements : in arms and arts, church and state, law, legislation, and literature, commerce, science, travel, and philanthropy"ĪRMS AND ARTS, CHURCH AND STATE, LAW, LEGISLATION,Īuthor of " Annals of Our Time" " History of Dumbartonshire" &*c, &-Y.
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