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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... Scotland that we get rules of taste in all the arts , from epic poetry to gardening ' . " The Russian Princess Romanovna Dashkova , who came from St. Petersburg in the late 1770s so her son could study the classics at the College , was ...
Edinburgh, 1745-1789 James Buchan. Scotland in the 1780s , told his German readers that ' more true learning is to be found in Edinburgh than in Oxford and Cambridge taken together ' . " As for Edinburgh , it was intoxicated with its own ...
... Scotland and gentry sending their children up to school and spending the winter in town . In the first age of millionaires , an Edinburgh family was rich with £ 1,000 a year.3 There were nine Presbyterian churches , each with two minis ...
Edinburgh, 1745-1789 James Buchan. the Prince of Darkness and drawn by four headless chargers . The house he had lived ... Scotland , and while the southern part of the Outer House teemed with advocates and petitioners and judges in their ...
Edinburgh, 1745-1789 James Buchan. tury , was fascinated by the Edinburgh of his parents ' time and sought to recover its ... Scotland's highest criminal court , from which there was no appeal . A row of tenements to the south and east ...
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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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