See also:JOHN See also:LOGAN (1748-1788)
, Scottish poet, was See also:born at Soutra, Midlothian, in 1748
.
His See also:father, See also:George See also:Logan, was a See also:farmer and a member of the Burgher See also:sect of the See also:Secession See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church
.
See also:John Logan was sent to See also:Musselburgh See also:grammar school, and in 1762 to the university of See also:Edinburgh
.
In 1768-'769 he was See also:tutor to
John, afterwards See also:Sir John, See also:Sinclair, at Ulbster, See also:Caithness, and in 1770, having See also:left the Secession church, he was licensed as a preacher by the See also:presbytery of See also:Haddington
.
In 1771 he was presented to the See also:charge of See also:South See also:Leith, but was not ordained till two years later
.
On the See also:death of See also:Michael See also:Bruce (q.v.) he obtained that poet's See also:MSS. with a view to publication
.
In 1770 he published Poems on Several Occasions, by Michael Bruce with a See also:preface, in which, after eulogizing Bruce, who had been a See also:fellow student of his, he remarked that " to make up a See also:miscellany some poems wrote by different authors are inserted, all of them originals, and none of them destitute of merit
.
The reader of See also:taste will easily distinguish them from those of Mr Bruce, without their being particularized by any See also:mark." Logan was an active member of the See also:committee of the See also:General See also:Assembly of the Church of See also:Scotland which worked from 1775 to 1781 at revising the " See also:Translations and Paraphrases " for public See also:worship, in which many of his See also:hymns are printed
.
In 1779-1781 he delivered a course of lectures on the See also:philosophy of See also:history at St See also:Mary's See also:Chapel, Edinburgh
.
An See also:analysis of these lectures, Elements of the Philosophy of History (1781), bears striking resemblance to A View of See also:Ancient History (1787), printed as the See also:work of Dr W
.
See also:Rutherford, but thought by Logan's See also:friends to be his
.
In 1781 he published his own Poems, including the " See also:Ode to the See also:Cuckoo " and some other poems which had appeared in his See also:volume of Michael Bruce's poems, and also his own contributions to the Paraphrases
.
His other publications were An See also:Essay on the See also:Manners and Governments of See also:Asia (1782), Runnamede, a tragedy (1783), and A See also:Review of the See also:Principal Charges against See also:Warren See also:Hastings (1788)
.
His connexion with the See also:theatre gave offence to his See also:congregation at South Leith; he was intemperate in his habits, and there was some See also:local See also:scandal attached to his name
.
He resigned his charge in 1786, retaining See also:part of his See also:stipend, and proceeded to See also:London, where he became a writer for the See also:English Review
.
He died on the 28th of See also:December 1788
.
Two See also:posthumous volumes of sermons appeared in 1790 and 1791
.
They were very popular, and were reprinted in 181o
.
His Poetical See also:Works were printed in Dr See also:Robert See also:- ANDERSON
- ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
- ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
- ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
- ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
- ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
- ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
- ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
- ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)
Anderson's See also:British Poets (vol. xi., 1795), with a See also:life of the author
.
They were reprinted in similar collections, and separately in 1805
.
Logan was accused of having appropriated in his Poems (1781) verses written by Michael Bruce
.
The statements of John See also:Birrell and See also:David See also:Pearson on behalf of Bruce were included in Dr Anderson's Life of Logan
.
The charge of See also:plagiarism has been revived from See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to time, notably by Dr W
.
Mackelvie (1837) and Mr See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Mackenzie (1905)
.
The whole controversy has been marked by strong partisanship
.
The See also:chief points against Logan are the suppression of the See also:major portion of Bruce's MSS. and some proved cases of plagiarism in his sermons and hymns
.
Even in the beautiful " Braes of See also:Yarrow " one of the verses is borrowed See also:direct from an old border ballad
.
The traditional See also:evidence in favour of Bruce's authorship of the " Ode to the Cuckoo" can hardly be set aside, but Dr See also:Robertson of Dalmeny, who was Logan's See also:literary executor, stated that he had gone over the MSS. procured at Kinnesswood with Logan
.
Logan's authorship of the poems in dispute is defended by David See also:Laing, Ode to the Cuckoo with remarks on its authorship, in a See also:letter to J
.
C
.
See also:Shairp, LL.D
.
(1873) ; by John Small in the British and See also:Foreign Evangelical Review (See also:July, 1877, See also:April and See also:October, 1879); and by R
.
Small in two papers (ibid., 1878)
.
See also BauCE, MICHAEL
.
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