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- In a Life of Susan Ferrier, lately published, an account of the family is given which was written by Miss Ferrier, for her nephew, the subject of our memoir.
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- The gentlemen-commoners at Magdalen, as elsewhere, paid higher fees and wore a distinctive costume; at Magdalen they had a common room of their own, distinct from that of the Fellows, or the Demies or Scholars, and seldom read for honours. In Ferrier's days Magdalen College admitted no ordinary commoners, and there were but few resident undergraduates, many of the thirty demies being graduates and non-resident. In the year of his matriculation there were only ten gentlemen-commoners; thus, as far as undergraduates went, the College was a small one.
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- Mr. Shirley was Member of Parliament for South Warwickshire, a well-known genealogist, and the author of The Noble and Gentle Men of England.
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- This meeting occurred after the Irish tour of Scott, Miss Anne Scott, and Lockhart, when they visited Wilson at Elleray. Canning was staying at Storre, in the neighbourhood.
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- Another sister married William Edmondstoune Aytoun, the poet. It was regarding Professor Aytoun's proposal for Miss Wilson's hand that the following story is told. When the engagement was being formed, Aytoun somewhat demurred to interviewing the father of the lady, and she herself undertook the mission. Presently she returned with a card pinned upon her breast bearing the satisfactory inscription, 'With the author's compliments'! Aytoun, as is well known, was extremely plain, and it was of his bust in the Blackwoods' saloon, a recognisable but idealistic likeness, that Ferrier remarked, 'I should call that the pursuit of beauty under difficulties.'
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- Philosophy of the Unconditioned (Sir William Hamilton), p. 15.
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- The late Sir John Skelton, K.C.B.
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- There was a movement amongst the students to secure the chair for Thomas Carlyle, then coming into fame amongst them; but Ferrier was chosen by the patrons, the Faculty of Advocates.
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- A Letter to the Lord Advocate on the Necessity of a Change in the Patronage of the University of Edinburgh.
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- Life of Benjamin Jowett, vol. i. pp. 98 and 145.
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- Writings by the Way, by John Campbell Smith, p. 357 seq.
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- Pleasant Recollections of a Busy Life, by David Pryde, LL.D., p. 59.
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- Memoir, p. 196, by Mrs. Oliphant.
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- P. 127.
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- Pleasant Memories, by David Pryde, LL.D.
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- Afterwards Ferrier's son-in-law.
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- Lectures and Philosophical Remains, Introductory Notes, p. xxii.
Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed. |
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