It’s there in a glance, cool as you like, direct from an age of reason. It says: here are my principles; convince me.
I once entertained a theory that most of Scotland’s high-end prose, Walter Scott’s most obviously, descended from Scots law. Years ago, I even tried to convince an audience that Robert Louis Stevenson could not have written nit-picking tales of moral difficulty without Hume and the Faculty of Advocates. They wondered what I was on about.
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One of my favourite pictures is Raeburn's portrait of Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, once judge within the Court of Session.
It’s there in a glance, cool as you like, direct from an age of reason. It says: here are my principles; convince me.
I once entertained a theory that most of Scotland’s high-end prose, Walter Scott’s most obviously, descended from Scots law. Years ago, I even tried to convince an audience that Robert Louis Stevenson could not have written nit-picking tales of moral difficulty without Hume and the Faculty of Advocates. They wondered what I was on about.
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