Stuart
Proper noun
Meaning
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A Scottish surname originating as an occupation, a variant of Stewart.
(historical) Alternative spelling of Stewart (“royal house regnant in Scotland from 1371 and in England from 1603, until 1714”) adopted in the mid-16th century by French-raised Mary, Queen of Scots, who had also been queen of France.
A placename
A city, the county seat of Martin County, Florida, United States.
A town, the county seat of Patrick County, Virginia, United States.
A coastal suburb in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
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I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has become far too much a stagnant one, in which opinions rather than experience and reason are appealed to.
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father.
John Stuart Mill, By a mighty effort of will, Overcame his natural bonhomie And wrote "Principles of Political Economy."
I am neither heir nor executor to Charles Stuart.
Like John Stuart Mill, he would often begin by stating the other side better than its advocate had stated it himself.