Значение слова STIRLING в Литературной энциклопедии

1) JAMES HUTCHISON (1820-1909).-Philosopher, _b._ in Glasgow, and _ed._ there and at Edin., where he studied medicine, which he practised until the death of his _f._ in 1851, after which he devoted himself to philosophy. His _Secret of Hegel_ (1865) gave a great impulse to the study and understanding of the Hegelian philosophy both at home and in America, and was also accepted as a work of authority in Germany and Italy. Other works, all characterised: by keen philosophical insight and masterly power of exposition are _Complete Text-book to Kant_ (1881), _Philosophy and Theology_ (1890), _What is Thought? or the Problem of Philosophy_ (1900), and _The Categories_ (1903). Less abstruse are _Jerrold, Tennyson, and Macaulay_ (1868), _Burns in Drama_ (1878), and _Philosophy in the Poets_ (1885). 2) STIRLING, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL of (1567-1640).-Poet, _s._ of A. of Menstrie, and _cr._ Earl of S. by Charles I., 1633, was a courtier, and held many offices of state. He studied at Glasgow and Leyden, and wrote among other poems, partly in Latin, sonnets and four _Monarchicke Tragedies_, _Darius_, _Croesus_, _The Alexandraean Tragedy_, and _Julius Caesar_ (1603-7), the motive of which is the fall of ambition, and which, though dignified, have little inspiration. He also assisted James I. in his metrical version of the Psalms. He _d._ insolvent in London. The grant of Nova Scotia which he had received became valueless owing to the French conquests in that region.