Andrew Melville (1 August 1545 – 1622) was a Scottish scholar, theologian and religious reformer. His fame encouraged scholars from the European Continent to study at Glasgow and St Andrews.
Read more about Andrew Melville: Early Life and Early Education, Travels and Study in Europe, Return To Scotland, King James and Imprisonment
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English and Scottish Ballads (The Poetry Bookshelf)
“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)