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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... thought ' no man lookt so poor so contemptible and detest- able as a drunken judge'.29 James Boswell barely drank until he passed advocate and started pleading in the Edinburgh courts ; thenceforth , he was rarely sober.30 Dress was ...
... 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 clerks for parts and pendicles of the ...
... thought to be a corruption of gardez l'eau or gare de l'eau look out for slops ! - but Mrs Jenkins , the good - natured maidservant in Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker , translated it as ' Lord have mercy upon you ! '41 For Edward Burt ...
... 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 a forced march down the new military roads built in the 1720s and 1730s to pacify the ...
... thought.18 It was pierced by six gates known by the old - fashioned word ' Port ' . While the ministry in London had been told the wall ' cannot be forced ' , 19 Sir John Clerk , engaged in Edinburgh affairs since the Union , knew that ...
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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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