Search Results for James Robertson

...Robert G. Walker Abstract James Robertson (1713 – 95) was born in Dublin but spent most of his life in England. By profession a comic actor associated for two decades with the York Theatre, in 1770 he published anonymously a relatively large volume of poetry (239 pages), with the title Poems...

...:35 PM Page 149 Figure 2. Sultan Ahmed Fountain (1728) at the Royal Gate of the Topkapi Palace (photograph by James Robertson, 1850s, Canadian Centre for Architecture). Courtesy National Library of Australia. ECL26310-Peker.q4.jw.SH 3/25/03 3...

... of the historian lay too close to the surface of these philosophical histories. If the set-piece Character was an artifice, then so too, more insidiously, was the narrative language of character. Countering James Boswell’s extravagant praise of Robertson (“such penetration— such painting Samuel Johnson...

... that left him Water, Windows, and Women 7 perplexed by the fl orid manners of the Venetians, or what he called “these extraordinary sallies of politeness” (Fleming, 268–69). Roger Robertson, younger of Ladykirk, Berwickshire, a model Grand Tourist in terms...

...- ferent group, led by the Lord Advocate, Henry Dundas, now emerging as Scotland’s reactionary political overlord; his friend and patron Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch; and, above all, the Moderate churchmen, like William Robertson, principal of the university, a world-famous Enlight- enment...

.... Mitford, John. Poems of a British Sailor. London: Printed for the Author by J. Flint. Robertson, Alexandar (3rd officer of H.C.S. Baring). Poems on various occasions. Calcutta: Printed at the Mirror Press by P. Crichton. A Sailor. Loyal and patriotic letters, with nautic and other...

....7 William Robertson, in his infl uential History of America (1777), set the tone for such distaste. Published the year before Miss Burney’s visit, Robertson’s book described America’s “rank” and “unwholesome” wilderness as teeming with “odious tribes” of insects, toads, reptiles, and bats...

... a more forcible conveyance to the description of various perilous situations the vessel was placed in. (vii–viii) Robertson is confident of Falconer's continued influence: “And Falconer thou'lt admirers find! / While Man shall plough the faithless Seas” (137). Another lyric tribute of the same...

..., William Robertson, John Millar, and Henry Home, Lord Kames, elaborated a history of civil society (45) as a spe- cific response to Montesquieu and Hume s row. Their history of civil society, broadly construed, posited man as a historical product (45). All peoples, they explained, progressed through...

.... In an agricultural society, that meant improved farming and the industry associated with it. It also meant some political and economic reforms. Sibbald wanted a new history of the kingdom based on critically examined sources. Much of the work he and his friends did made Robertson’s History of Scotland...

... of Place in European Romanticism. Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism, ed. Michael P. Branch, SueEllen Campbell, and John Tallmadge (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia, 2004). Pp. 320. 12 ills. $65. ISBN 0-8139-2274-7. $22.50 paper. ISBN 0-8139-2275-5 Robertson, Fiona...

... and the Slae.16 At the same time, however, his 1804 volume contains allusions to William Robertson’s History of Scotland (1759) and John Home’s Douglas: A Tragedy (1757), as well as an “Elegy on the Death of Hugh Blair, D. D which adeptly surveys Blair’s religious and aesthetic writings. At one point...

... Amerindians; refutations of Robertson and de Pauw’s degenerative thesis about the effects of the New World climate on plants, animals, and humans; and the “black legend” as employed for political and scientific purposes. Chap- ter 2 concludes by setting up the chapters that will follow: “By the mid 1700s...

... it acknowledged none of the Scottish sounds that, in oral use, the lan- guage acquired north of the Tweed. Colleagues of the leading Scottish histo- rian of the period, William Robertson, were apparently impressed at how very English he seemed in his books, as if he had “lived all...

... of the pantheon of great historians, as he explicitly links anecdotal biography to other sorts of history writing, and indeed other forms of storytelling: Stewart and Robertson, from thee, shall learn, The simple charms of Hist’ry to discern: To thee, fair Hist’ry’s palm, shall Livy yield...

... of HMS Dolphin round the world . . . written by her master George Robertson, ed. H. Carrington, Haklyut Society, 2nd series, no. 98 (London, 1948), 42, and Richard Pickersgill, Logbook of the Dolphin . . . , 1766 – 1767 (14 November 1766, 28 May 1767), National Maritime Museum, JOD/57. 17...

... of the Endeavour 1768–71, ed. J. C. Beaglehole (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1999), p. 399. 3. The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks, ed. J. C. Beaglehole, 2 vols. (Sydney: Public Lib. of New South Wales and Angus & Robertson, 1962), 2:130. 4. Watkin Tench, ed...

... for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. William Robertson, Adam Smith, and David Hume were different. It is therefore worth asking, in their tradition of thought, if two other volumes in this series provide any clues to why Europeans did end up exercising various forms of ascendancy over non-Europeans...

.... Complete Poetical Works, ed. Herbert Davis (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 1983), p. 380. 9. Poetical Works, ed. J. Logie Robertson (London: Oxford Univ., 1971), p. 199. 10. In the painting, a prisoner kneels before the committee in chains while Bambridge— who evidently has not had time to conceal his...

..., rev. ed. (1977; Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ., 1994); J. Robertson, A Union for Empire: Political Thought and the Union of 1707 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 1995); and Christopher Whatley, The Scots and the Union (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ., 2006). 18. George Ridpath, Scotland’s Soveraignty...