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Description: | s.d.inscr. base "HUGH BLAIR D.D. / 1791 / Tassie F." CRE TASSIE, James; (Scottish; 1735-1799) 1791 Blair was a well-known divine of the Church of Scotland, born in Edinburgh and educated at the University of Edinburgh. In 1758 he was appointed to the High Church, Edinburgh and the several volumes of his sermons and Lectures on Rhetoric (1783) were very popular. He moved in literary circles and was a member of the Poker Club, as were Hume, Carlyle and other intellectuals of the Scottish Enlightenment.
(Dr Ailsa Boyd, 2003) | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | HISTORICAL COLLECTION : UNIVERSITY HISTORY : HISTPER : NACF : TASSIE_M : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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