Essays

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"Aesthetics in Scotland", by Hugh MacDiarmid, manuscript, pen, 98pp, some missing (pp. 31-35, p. 64).

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Manuscript notebook containing two essays, entitled 'An essay upon the connection between true faith in the Gospel and holiness in heart and life' and 'An essay on the nature and necessity of regeneration'.

The essays are written in ink, and annotated in pencil by a later hand. Essays were originally paginated, but some numbers are trimmed off.

Biblical texts: Titus 2, 3 and 5

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An essay written by John Baillie as a student at New College, Edinburgh, examining various attitudes to the question of immortality and problems associated with it. Annotated as having been marked by Alexander Martin.

Scope and Contents Autograph corrected text from Scottish phrenologist and lawyer George Combe's appendix to his edition of Elisha P. Hurlbut's Essays on Human Rights and their Political Guaranties. The document is undated, but the Edinburgh edition published in 1847.Reads: "[.] that in the Standards of no church with which I am acquainted is there a recognition of God's natural laws as guides for human conduct, which on account of their divine origin, & of their...

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"…But we Shall be Free!" a piece beginning, manuscript, pen, 7pp.

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An essay written by John Baillie as a student at the University of Edinburgh or New College, comparing John Locke's meaning of 'essence', John Stuart Mill's doctrine of 'natural kinds' and William James' views on classification and conception.

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[Crichton-Browne, Sir James] "Sir James Crichton-Browne…", a piece on, manuscripts pencil, 10pp.

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The texts to early essays, lectures and various notes

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Two versions of an essay on the Barra Cross by Alexander Carmichael.

Scope and Contents Manuscript notebook containing essays by John Ross Macduff on biblical topics and early church history. Each essay is titled, and most have an additional title page with stylised caligraphy. All of the essays are in the same hand, but some of the pencil annotations may be from another author.Contents:1. On the necessity of a divine revelation. 18 October 1833. 4 pages.2. On the genuineness and authenticity of the New Testament scripture. October 1833. 4...