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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... appeared on Edinburgh tables as a dessert.23 There were very few public buildings , so that all legal , town and church business was done in dark taverns . Indeed John Coutts , the general merchant who treated with the Highland rebels ...
... appeared to enjoy our march to danger with much levity and mirth . Some of our warm Volunteers observed them , and threatened to fire into the windows if they were not instantly let down , which was immediately complied with.40 At last ...
... appearance : they compared him to Robert the Bruce , whom he resembled ( they said ) in his figure as in his fortune . The Whigs looked upon him with other eyes . They acknowledged that he was a goodly person ; but they observed , that ...
... appeared on the high ground to the south - west , gave a shout , and had to be restrained by their officers from falling at once on the govern- ment army . The sun went down on another beautiful evening , and as the Highland army seemed ...
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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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