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... lectures which had been given since the previous oral examination . When V came up , immediately Veitch rose slowly in his place . The event was one of interest to us all he gave an account of the Professor's reasoning so clear , so ...
... lectures which had been given since the previous oral examination . When V came up , immediately Veitch rose slowly in his place . The event was one of interest to us all he gave an account of the Professor's reasoning so clear , so ...
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... lectures of a teacher who shall be nameless . He had recently bought Coleridge , by the way , and was slowly widening his literary horizon . As the year's correspondence closes , he ex- plains his refusal to go to Edinburgh to enrol for ...
... lectures of a teacher who shall be nameless . He had recently bought Coleridge , by the way , and was slowly widening his literary horizon . As the year's correspondence closes , he ex- plains his refusal to go to Edinburgh to enrol for ...
Page 120
... Lectures on Metaphysics , ' published in 1859 , about the same time when Veitch tried for the Chair of Logic in the University of Aberdeen , and lost what Bain got . And now he was en- gaged in preparing for the press the second volume ...
... Lectures on Metaphysics , ' published in 1859 , about the same time when Veitch tried for the Chair of Logic in the University of Aberdeen , and lost what Bain got . And now he was en- gaged in preparing for the press the second volume ...
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... event postponed the marriage . As to work , even before his induction he writes of " that stupid Introductory Lecture , which progresses provokingly slowly . . . . I must be content to jog on in the dry round 140 MEMOIR OF JOHN VEITCH .
... event postponed the marriage . As to work , even before his induction he writes of " that stupid Introductory Lecture , which progresses provokingly slowly . . . . I must be content to jog on in the dry round 140 MEMOIR OF JOHN VEITCH .
Page 141
... Lecture , but find it hard and painful to elaborate the thing fully , or so as to approach in the faintest degree what I think it ought to be . " " The St Andrews people must think me an import- ant person ! the bankers are making ...
... Lecture , but find it hard and painful to elaborate the thing fully , or so as to approach in the faintest degree what I think it ought to be . " " The St Andrews people must think me an import- ant person ! the bankers are making ...
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