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Essays

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = Baillie

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Apologetic Homily: The Problem of Immortality, 1909

 Item
Identifier: BAI 1/3/6
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1909

Comparison between Locke, Mill and James, c1908

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Identifier: BAI 1/3/10
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c1908

Early essays, lectures and notes, 1906-1912

 Series
Identifier: BAI 1/3
Scope and Contents

The texts to early essays, lectures and various notes

Dates: 1906-1912

Essay on the Barra Cross, c late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW464
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: c late 19th century

Essays by Rev James Drummond (c.1805-1867), minister of Irvine Relief Church

 Collection
Identifier: MS DRU 3
Scope and Contents

Essays for the Relief Divinity Hall by James Drummond, Minister of Irvine Relief Church, 1841. Octavo volume with 133 leaves.

Interleaved with a biographical note from 1949 by Rev. Robert J. Drummond, donor of the item and grandson of the author. "Exercises usually prescribed in the fourth year of a student for the ministry in the Relief Church"

Dates: Majority of material found within 1841

Garnett, Henry. Questions and answers by H.G. on matters of heresy, Late 16th century

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Identifier: De.1.12/18
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This is a deposition by the English Jesuit priest Henry Garnet, in which he answers some articles on "the doctrine of Scriptures, the three creedes, and the foure first councells". Garnett was executed in 1606 for his complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Dates: Late 16th century

Garnett, Henry. Questions and answers by H.G. on matters of heresy, Late 16th to early 17th century

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Identifier: De.1.12/19
Scope and Contents

This is a deposition by the English Jesuit priest Henry Garnet, in which he answers some articles on "the doctrine of Scriptures, the three creedes, and the foure first councells". Garnett was executed in 1606 for his complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

Dates: Late 16th to early 17th century

Greek Exegesis: The message to Philadelphia, 10 January 1911

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Identifier: BAI 1/3/4
Scope and Contents

An essay written by John Baillie as a student at New College, Edinburgh, examining the biblical book of Revelations, Chapter III, verse 7-13, and the ancient city of Philidelphia. Annotated as having been marked by Harry Angus Alexander Kennedy, New College.

Dates: 10 January 1911

Hebrew Exegesis: The Vision of Isaiah, c1910

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Identifier: BAI 1/3/5
Scope and Contents

An essay written by John Baillie as a student at New College, Edinburgh, examining the the biblical book of Isaiah, Chapter VI, verse 1-8.

Dates: c1910

Locke's Doctrine of Essence, 12 November 1906

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Identifier: BAI 1/3/9
Scope and Contents

An essay written by John Baillie as a student at the University of Edinburgh, examining the meaning of 'essence' as used by philosopher, John Locke.

Dates: 12 November 1906