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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... and modesty of ' l'immortel Robertson , Blair , Smith et Ferguson'.8 The Prussian officer J.W. von Archenholz , who travelled in England and Scotland in the 1780s , told his German readers that 2 CROWDED WITH GENIUS Charlie's Year.
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 ...
... told his readers how to drink from a shared glass : ' Be sure to wipe your Mouth before you drink , and when you drink hold in your Breath till you have done . I have seen some colour the Glass with their Breath , which is certainly ...
... told the wall ' cannot be forced ' , 19 Sir John Clerk , engaged in Edinburgh affairs since the Union , knew that it was ' good for noth- ing'.20 The Prince's Secretary , John Murray of Broughton , had spent the winter in Edinburgh ...
... told the boys that the two companies of dragoons were to make a stand at Corstorphine but needed infantry support , which meant some two hundred and thirty volunteers , along with fifty of the Town Guard . If any volunteer preferred to ...
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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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