Now! Then! 2025! - Yorkshire On This Day

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You do not know, perhaps, that among my thousand and one projects is to be numbered a new metaphysical language – a bold fancy for any man not born in Scotland. Physics, metaphysics, gardening, and jobbing are the privileges of the North. By the bye, have you ever remarked that singular verse in the Psalms, “Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, neither from the south”?

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I suspect that Dugald Stewart is the Scottish philosopher in question, but I’ve tagged a few more possibles.

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You do not know, perhaps, that among my thousand and one projects is to be numbered a new metaphysical language, – a bold fancy for any man not born in Scotland. Physics, metaphysics, gardening, and jobbing are the privileges of the North. By the bye, have you ever remarked that singular verse in the Psalms, “Promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, neither from the south”?

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• Dugald Stewart (1) ·
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• Gardening (6) ·
• Heslington (4) ·
• John Murray (publisher, born 1778) (1) ·
• John Murray (publishing house) (1) ·
• Metaphysics (2) ·
• Philosophy (1) ·
• Physics (3) ·
• Psalm 75 (1) ·
• Psalms (13) ·
• Quarterly Review (1) ·
• Scotland (37) ·
• Scottish Enlightenment (1) ·
• Scottish philosophy (1) ·
• Smith, Sydney (1771-1845) (7), wit, writer, Anglican cleric ·
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