Miscellaneous essays and addresses.: Also biographical note and bibliography.
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London,
J.C. Nimmo,
1901.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Series: | Stirling Maxwell, William, Sir, 1818-1878. Works ;
v. 6. |
Table of Contents:
- The proverbial philosophy of Scotland
- A few Spanish proverbs about friars
- Wit and wisdom from West Africa
- Adagia of Erasmus
- William Hickling Prescott
- Ticknor's Life of Prescott
- Richard Ford (1)
- Richard Ford (2)
- Sir Robert Strange
- The Dukes of Urbino
- Devises and mottoes
- Ancient Scottish seals
- Spanish bull-fights
- Rectorial address: St. Andrew
- On some varieties of historical style
- The fall of two empires, 1814 and 1870
- Sir Walter Scott
- Rectorial address: Edinburgh
- Chancellor's address: Glasgow.