Essays.
Found in 566 Collections and/or Records:
Documents relating to an industrial management course undertaken by James Johnston., 1964
‘Doggerel Allegory of Hemophthisis', by Thomas Davidson, sent by him in a letter to the Reverend James Brown., 1869.
Draft of parts of the novel ‘The house with the green shutters’ by George Douglas Brown., [1901, or before.]
Essay, 1794, entitled 'On the chorus', and miscellaneous fragments, undated, on ancient drama, apparently unpublished., 1794, undated.
Essay, 'Administration the reason why', by David Ainslie Thin., 2 May 2002.
Essay and notes on Mývatan., 1978.
Essay and notes on naval warfare of the Vikings., 1979.
Essay and pamphlet on Stranraer., 4th quarter of 20th century.
The essay is typed up, but unidentified, so it may not have been written by Magnusson.
Essay by Alexander Carlyle on the parish of Inveresk., 1752-1756, [1791, or before.]
The volume was first used to record the maintenance expenses of the Musselburgh Poors House 1752-1756 (folio 1), then reused by Alexander Carlyle for this essay (folio 18 verso). A few leaves loosely enclosed in the volume have been placed at the back (folio 43).
Essay by Henry Bell describing his work on steam navigation with the "Comet" and other contributions.
Essay by the Reverend Charles Moncrieff Robertson on personal names., [Before 1928.]
Essay by William Marwick on cautionry for Scots Law Class at Edinburgh., 1852.
Essay, circa 1760, of James Buchanan, on self-love, with manuscript notes, 1782, of the 11th Earl of Buchan.
Essay concerning cobalt, addressed to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, possibly by Nicholas Crisp., Mid 18th century.
The Society for the Encouragement of Arts had offered a prize for the best essay on the subject of colbalt, and this essay bears the written comments of two examiners. Inserted at the end of the volume are an examiner's comments on two other essays on the same subject (folio 53); including that of Johann Gottlob Lehmann, Berlin, to whom the prize was awarded.
Essay entitled `Superstitions of Perth` by the Reverend James Scott, incorporating extracts from the Kirk Session registers of Perth upon 16th century popular customs in Perth., 1788.
Among the customs recorded are the Corpus Christi play (page 1), Saint Obert`s play (page 6) and processions to the Dragon`s Hole of Kinnoul (page 13).
Essay entitled, 'The beneficial influence of the Christian Clergy during the first thousand years of the Christian Era’, apparently unpublished., [1849, or after.]
From the dates of publication of books cited in the footnotes, the essay could not have been written before 1849.
Essay entitled 'The political and social condition of the Republics of the Medieval Italy, as compared with those of Greece', apparently unpublished., [1843, or after], undated.
There are two copies of the essay (folios 1, 40), the second being written on paper watermarked 1843.
‘Essay for the Rhetoric Class upon the Origin of Superstition’, by John Lawson, United Presbyterian minister of the 1st charge in Selkirk, 1850-1896.
John Lawson attended Edinburgh University from 1841/1842 until at least 1845 and the Rhetoric class which he attended was probably that of Professor William Spalding thus dating his essay to ?1842-?1845. On the versos of folios 21-24 is a Knoweparke Library catalogue in an older hand of the same John Lawson.
Essay, notes, and extracts from other works, on teinds and other ecclesiastical matters.
Essay of Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes ‘Was the movement of Bonaparte beneficial to France’., 1828.
Essay on female conduct, detailing the way in which a girl should conduct her life, composed by and apparently in the autograph of Alexander Monro, primus, probably in 1738 or 1739, in the form of letters to his daughter Margaret.
The sheets on which the 'letters' were written were inserted in a blank notebook as interleaves. Additional paragraphs, sentences, etc., were written in the margins of the interleaves, as well as on some of the original pages, on which is also written by the same hand an essay entitled, 'Of the Origine of Government and of the Right to the Supream Power applyed to the disputed Succession of the Crown of Britain' (folio 193).
Essay on healing by James Campbell., 1913.
Essay on logic., 1679.
'Essay on the application of steam to the purposes of navigation'; a fair copy by James Rennie of his prize essay.
In an introductory note (folio ii verso), James Rennie states that he could not transcribe ‘several important particulars, which he has in the Scroll Copy'.