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Essays

 Subject

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

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

Essays by John Ross MacDuff (1818-1895), minister of Sandyford

 Fonds
Identifier: MS MCD 4
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...
Dates: 1833-1834
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

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
Found in: New College Library Special Collections

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

 piece
Identifier: De.1.12/18
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 century
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts from the William Drummond of Hawthornden Collection / Bound Volume titled "Scottish Manuscripts from The Drummond Collection 1572-1618"

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

 piece
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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts from the William Drummond of Hawthornden Collection / Bound Volume titled "Scottish Manuscripts from The Drummond Collection 1572-1618"

Greek Exegesis: The message to Philadelphia, 10 January 1911

 Item
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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Early essays, lectures and notes

Hebrew Exegesis: The Vision of Isaiah, c1910

 Item
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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Early essays, lectures and notes

Locke's Doctrine of Essence, 12 November 1906

 Item
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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Early essays, lectures and notes

"Londonisation Denounced", "No Episcopacy for Scotland", "Notable Events", "The Little Rebel", undated

 Item
Identifier: Coll-2124/3/10
Scope and Contents

"Londonisation Denounced", "No Episcopacy for Scotland", "Notable Events", and "The Little Rebel", manuscript, pen, 3pp and fragment.

Dates: Other: undated
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Literary Papers of Hugh MacDiarmid collected by Kulgin D. Duval / Essays

Manuscript volume containing two essays: "Essay on the Physiology of the Nervous System" by R. Wiseman and "Essay on Paralysis" by Alexander Reid, 1827

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1848/26-0058/2
Scope and Contents

Manuscript volume containing two works: "Essay on the Physiology of the Nervous System by R Wisemann, surgeon, Cupar, read before the society Jan 12th 1827", and "Essay on Paralysis read befor the Society 5 July 1827 by Alexr Reid, surgeon, Markinch". There is a later pencilled annotation to the endpaper reading: "Lettered on Spine (apparently original binding): Essays of the Fife Med. Chirurgical Society Vol. II 1827".

Dates: 1827
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Notes on Gaelic surnames, c 1860-1875

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW447
Scope and Contents

Draft essay regarding Gaelic surnames.

Dates: c 1860-1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection