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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... looked and smelled like a medieval city , it had the makings of modern institutions . For all its parsimony and dirt , Edinburgh had made more history , as John Buchan later put it , than any town its size but Athens , Jerusalem and ...
... looked upon as a sort of riot , which would easily be quelled by the King's troops , who were thought be be the only men in the Kingdom that knew how to fight ... The affair began to be deemed somewhat serious.'10 The Prince's army made ...
... looked , when he found us so vigilant ? ' ' No , ' Carlyle replied , ' I thought he looked and behaved perfectly well , and it was the light from the lantern that made him appear pale . '54 Out to the west , the two regiments of ...
... looked graceful on horseback . But something was amiss : The Jacobites were charmed with his appearance : they compared him to Robert the Bruce , whom he resembled ( they said ) in his figure as in his fortune . The Whigs looked upon ...
... looked down in Whig contempt on a ' commick fars or tragic commody ' . All these mountan officers with there troupes in rank and fyle in order marched from Parliament Closs down to surrownd the Cross , and with there bagpipes and loosie ...
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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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