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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... cause the old Provost George Drummond - who had a cold and thus the privilege of taking just sack and water - to ask God to ' pardon me the guilt of others'.27 At their mother's funeral in 1716 , the future President of the Session ...
... causes . ( cases ) proceed in orderly fashion ? 35 The court rose at noon , and Lord President Forbes , the only judge to use a carriage , would take two Lords of Session with him for a short airing in The Meadows , a little park on the ...
... cause and some because they want to be thought engaged ... - to see the reporters mending their pens to take down the debate - the Lords themselves pooin ' in their chairs , like folk sitting down to a gude dinner , and crying on the ...
... caused the Lowland Scots to think about the purposes of political government . Important questions of religious and civil liberty had been posed . Latin was still the universal learned language and Scottish students and scholars moved ...
... cause undue alarm . He wrote : ' I have resolved to make my journey to the North Country earlier this season than usual ... I propose to set out tomorrow Morning . " Lord President Forbes , who owned a fine stone house CHARLIE'S YEAR 25.
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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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