Crowded with Genius: Edinburgh, 1745-1789Harper Collins, 13 жовт. 2009 р. - 464 стор. In the early eighteenth century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Yet by century's end, it had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest minds of the day and their breathtaking innovations in architecture, politics, science, the arts, and economics—all of which continue to echo loudly today. Adam Smith penned The Wealth of Nations. James Boswell produced The Life of Samuel Johnson. Alongside them, pioneers such as David Hume, Robert Burns, James Hutton, and Sir Walter Scott transformed the way we understand our perceptions and feelings, sickness and health, relations between the sexes, the natural world, and the purpose of existence. In Crowded with Genius, James Buchan beautifully reconstructs the intimate geographic scale and boundless intellectual milieu of Enlightenment Edinburgh. With the scholarship of a historian and the elegance of a novelist, he tells the story of the triumph of this unlikely town and the men whose vision brought it into being. |
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... March . with a short recess for Christmas , sat here the two divisions of the Court of Session , the highest civil court of an energetically litig- ious society : either a single judge , sitting on the old Sovereign's throne under the ...
... march his guns and two thousand men into the Highlands to con- front the rebels before they could organise or arm themselves . ' A little , dressy , finical man , ' in the opinion of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik , 2nd Bt ( formerly one of ...
... march down the new military roads built in the 1720s and 1730s to pacify the Highlands and descended the Braes of Atholl to the Episcopalian lowlands . They took first Perth , then Dundee , without firing a shot . Outflanked by the ...
... was at Linlithgow . The six volunteeer companies were hurriedly paraded at 10 a.m. in the College Yards to hear their company commanders tell them that they were to march out against the rebels and , as Carlyle noted 32 CROWDED WITH GENIUS.
... march out , well , he would not be blamed . Drummond's speech was drowned in applause . For the first time , the young men loaded their pieces . Suddently , the town's fire - bell rang out . That was the chosen signal for the volunteers ...
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4 | 57 |
Smaller Joys from Less Important Causes | 119 |
Torrents of Wind | 173 |
The Savage and the Shopkeeper | 208 |
The Art of Dancing | 241 |
Earth to Earth | 289 |
The Man of Feeling | 398 |
Notes | 412 |
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