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    Hugh Blair

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    Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. ↗


    — Hugh Blair

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    Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner. ↗


    — Hugh Blair

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    Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man. ↗


    — Hugh Blair

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    The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible. ↗


    — Hugh Blair

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    What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it. ↗


    — Hugh Blair

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    A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian the Son of Fingal
    In 1763 Blair publiHugh Blaird A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian his first well known openly authored publication. Blair's definition of taste reflects this sentiment: "The power of receiving pleasure from the beauties of nature and art: (15). Though Blair rejects this traditional method of discourse his work is still prescriptive in nature.

    Best known for Sermons a five volume endorsement of practical Christian morality and Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres a prescriptive guide on composition Blair was a valuable part of the Scottish Enlightenment. Hugh Blair FRSE (7 April 1718 – 27 December 1800) was a Scottish minister of religion author and rhetorician considered one of the first great theorists of written discourse.

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