Stirling (17), the county town of Stirlingshire, and one of the crucial historic and traditionally-interesting cities of Scotland; occupies a advantageous site on the Forth, 36 m. Stheno, one of many three Gorgons (q. The three transports certain to China, sailed the fifth, sixth, and 8th of May; and the supply having been caulked, sailed on the 6th to Lord Howe Island for turtle, in hopes of giving some verify to the scurvy, with which the people were still so much affected that close to two hundred had been incapable of labor. Falkirk, and Kilsyth; attention-grabbing stays of Antoninus’ Wall, from Forth to Clyde, still exist; inside its borders had been fought the battles of Bannockburn, Sauchieburn, Stirling Bridge, Falkirk, &c. It came wanting Christian morality, as certainly all Greek philosophy did, in not recognising the Divine significance and energy of humility, and particularly in its failure to see, nonetheless more to conform to, the good doctrine of Christ which makes the salvation of a man to depend upon the interest he takes in, as well as in the fact of the salvation of, different men. Stewart, Dugald, Scottish philosopher, born in Edinburgh, son of Matthew Stewart; attended the Highschool and the University; studied one session at Glasgow underneath Dr. Reid; assisted his father in conducting the mathematical lessons in Edinburgh, and succeeded Adam Ferguson in the Moral Philosophy chair in 1785, a submit, the lively duties of which he discharged with sign success for twenty-five years, lecturing on a wide range of topics connected with metaphysics and the science of thoughts; he wrote “Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind,” “Philosophical Essays,” &c.; “His writings,” says Carlyle, who held him in high veneration, “are not a philosophy, but a making prepared for one.
Stigand, archbishop of Canterbury and favorite of Edward the Confessor, who superior him to the bishoprics of Elmham and Winchester and to the Primacy in 1052; his appointment was popularly thought to be uncanonical, and neither Harold nor William the Conqueror allowed him to perform the ceremony of coronation; through William’s influence was by the Pope deprived of his office and condemned to imprisonment. NE. of Glasgow; most outstanding characteristic is the rocky castle hill, rising at the westward finish of the town to a top of 420 ft, and crowned by the ancient castle, a favourite Stuart residence, and related to many stirring events in Scottish history, and utilised now as a garrison-station; attention-grabbing additionally are “Argyll’s Lodging,” Greyfriars Church (Pointed Gothic of the fifteenth century), the fantastic statue of Bruce, &c.; has manufactures of tartans, tweeds, carpets, &c., and a trade in agricultural and mining products. Stirlingshire (126), a midland county of Scotland, stretching E. and W. from Dumbarton (W.) to the Forth (E.); between Lanark (S.) and Perth (N.) it kinds the borderland between the Lowlands and the Highlands; Loch Lomond skirts the western border, and on the northern Loch Katrine, stretching into Perthshire; Ben Lomond and lesser heights rise within the NW.; important streams are the Avon, Carron, Bannock, &c.; between Alloa and Stirling stretches the fertile and effectively-cultivated plain, “The Carse of Stirling”; in the W. lies a portion of the great western coal-subject, from which coal and iron-stone are largely extracted; principal towns are Stirling (q.
E. of Liverpool; a handsome viaduct spans the river; has an old grammar-college, free library, technical college, &c.; throughout the present century has grown to be a busy centre of cotton manufactures, and has besides flourishing iron and brass foundries, machine-outlets, breweries, &c. Stockport (70), a cotton town of East Cheshire; occupies a site on the slopes of a slim gorge overlooking the confluence of the Thame and Goyt (forming the Mersey), 37 m. Stockholm (246), capital of Sweden; occupies a charming site on the channel main out of Lake Mälar right into a bay of the Baltic; stands partly on the mainland and partly on nine islands, communication between which is facilitated by handsome bridges and a busy service of boats; its wooded and rocky islands, crowned with handsome buildings, its winding waterways, peninsulas, crowded wharves, and outlook over the isleted lake, combine to make it one of the vital picturesque cities of Europe; Town Island, the nucleus of the town, is occupied by the royal palace, House of Nobles, principal wharf, &c., whereas on Knights’ Island stand the Houses of Parliament, legislation-courts, and different public buildings; Norrmalm, with the Academy of Science, National Museum, Academy of Fine Arts, Hop Garden, &c., is the best quarter of the town; manufactures embrace sugar, tobacco, silks, linen, cotton, &c., besides which there are flourishing iron-works and a busy export commerce in iron and steel, oats, and tar, regardless of the hindrance brought on by the ice during three or 4 months in winter; founded in 1255 by Birger Jarl.
Steyer (17), a producing town of Upper Austria, at the junction of the Steyer and Enns, 20 m. It should unclose before it, revealing to sight and bringing to enjoyment its riches and its depths.” It’s the work of a grasp-mind, as every one should really feel who tackles to the research of it, and of 1 who has mastered the subject of it as not one other in England, or perhaps even in Germany, has achieved. As early as 1592 he r is publicly recognized, not solely as an actor of distinction, but as a dramatist whose work had excited the envy and indignation of his contemporaries, and particularly of 1 so accomplished and so eminent, so good a scholar and grasp of the playwright’s craft, as Robert Greene. Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour, novelist and essayist, grandson of the preceding, born at Edinburgh, where in 1875 he was referred to as to the bar, after disappointing his father by not following the household vocation of engineering; had already begun to write for the magazines, and shortly abandoned law for the occupation of letters, in which he quickly got here to the entrance; in 1878 appeared his first e-book, “An Inland Voyage,” quickly adopted by “Travels with a Donkey,” “Virginibus Puerisque,” “Familiar Studies”; with “Treasure Island” (1883) discovered a wider public as a writer of journey and romance, and established himself completely in the public favour with “Kidnapped” (1886, hottest story), “The Master of Ballantrae,” “Dr.