History
- Antonine Wall, Auld Alliance
- Battle of Bannockburn, Battle of Largs, Battle of Falkirk, Battle of Stirling Bridge
- Charles Edward Stuart, Col Ciotach, Culloden
- Declaration of Arbroath, Devolution
- Hadrian's Wall - often used as a metaphor, but none of which is actually in Scotland.
- John Knox
- John Paul Jones
- Massacre of Glencoe, Moss Troopers Act 1712
- Radical War, Red Clydeside, Rob Roy MacGregor
- Robert the Bruce
- Wars of independence, William Wallace
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“In history the great moment is, when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on his opening sense of beauty;—and you have Pericles and Phidias,—and not yet passed over into the Corinthian civility. Everything good in nature and in the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astrigency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.”
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“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
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