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- Simply rehashing his biographical data does not begin to do justice to Dr. George Blair and what made him such a notable professor. One of the most outstanding traits of his teaching career was that he wrote his own texts for the courses he taught, which he sold to his students for only enough money to cover the cost of production.
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Jun 27, 2011 · As the first Regius Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh—and even before—the rector of the High Kirk of St. Giles practiced upon Scotland’s future leaders and spokesmen what his own education, pulpit experience, and conversations with men of parts and learning convinced him was the art of rhetoric—of ...
The best-known figure to come out of the Dissenting academy tradition was Joseph Priestley, tutor in Languages and Belles Lettres at Warrington Academy from 1762 to 1767. From Scotland came the most influential sources of early college English studies-Hugh Blair and George Campbell.
Jul 26, 2011 · Blair’s Rhetoric was by his own admission not a revolutionary, experimental, or speculative book, not a scholar’s treatise designed to rival George Campbell’s The Philosophy of Rhetoric or Whately’s Elements of Criticism; instead (and most simply) it was intended as a useful tool—an adaptation of classical rhetoric and rhetorical ...
The Blair Prize, in the form of an honorarium and engraved shield, is presented after each Lecture by Dr John Blair (President Friends of Millbank), or a member of the family (2019). The George Blair Memorial Lecture for 2020 is scheduled to be delivered on 30 October 2020,
Introduction to Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. The Most Significant Passage in Hugh Blair's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. Clio and Ethics: Practical Morality in Enlightened...
that Blair achieved his greatest fame and influence. In 1759 Blair began his ser-ies of lectures on rhetoric at the Univer-sity of Edinburgh, and in 1763 he was commissioned by George III as the first Regius Professor of Rhetoric at that uni-versity. Perhaps the most distinguished successor to this Chair, which still exists
