...Patricia L. Hamilton In the front matter of The Greek Theatre of Father Brumoy , Charlotte Lennox conflates the language of patronage and friendship to refer to John Boyle, the fifth Earl of Orrery. Her conflation points to the unusual relationship the two writers forged between 1752 and 1760...

..., was produced in Scotland. The Aberdeen-based bookseller, papermaker, and publisher John Boyle, who had also issued Allan Ramsay’s Poems (1776), printed a two-volume pocket edition con- taining three engraved plates of allegorical figures of the seasons (spring, autumn, winter) that vaguely anticipate...

... biographies, and Damrosch, have the correct version. The anecdote came from John Boyle, the fifth Earl of Orrery, a much younger man who knew Swift in his later years. Like many of the early biographers, Orrery appointed himself a protector of Swift’s legacy, which entailed the need to rationalize...

... novel. Like many scholars before her, Thompson posits a fundamental link between John Locke and the new species of narrative developing in the period, but in her view, Locke s understanding of empirical knowledge is importantly influenced by the corpuscular chemistry of Robert Boyle. This is no mere...

... published in his History of the Air (1691), cited by Patrick Curry, Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 1989), 63. Among John Aubrey’s papers is the natal horoscope of Dryden’s scientific friend Walter Charleton, president of the Royal College...

... Boyle, Frank. Swift as Nemesis: Modernity and the Satirist (Stanford: Stanford Univ., 2000). Pp. xiv + 242. $45. ISBN 0-8047-3436-4 Braun, Theodore E. D., and John A. McCarthy, eds. Disrupted Patterns: On Chaos and Order in the Enlightenment (Amsterdam & Atlanta...

... spent in England, notably the Catholics who practiced and prospered as chamber counsel, have been identified thanks to John Bergin’s research. It reveals a distinctive component among the London Irish, who link with others culturally, socially, and religiously, extending out to the English...

... of Irish investors had shareholdings of less than £500 in 1723, while only two had holdings above £10,000. These latter two were Sir John Molesworth, British ambassador to the court of Savoy at Turin and a scion of a prominent landed Dublin family, and Henry Boyle, Lord Carleton, a member...

... contribution to that study by illuminating the work of one of its most important ancestors. Notes 1. John Milton, Milton’s Paradise Lost: A New Edition, ed. Richard Bentley (London: J. Tonson, et al., 1732), preface, sig.a1v. M ...

...- ognizable not only as a promoter of “useful knowledge,” as he writes to the president of the Royal Society (A New Voyage, 1), but also as a real-life suc- cessor to John Mandeville, whose encyclopedic fourteenth-century voy- ages were still circulating in the seventeenth...

...- liam Dampier’s A New Voyage Round the World was the most popular and influential travel account of the first half of the eighteenth century.1 Its effects rippled through the public consciousness at large, leading such readers as John Locke and Joseph Addison to ponder its significance.2 Its...

... was the new theories and models of Robert Boyle, John Locke, and Isaac Newton, all of which, in various ways, challenged the idea that we can have direct, unmediated knowledge of the nature of things.24 It is important to recognize, however, that the shift from...

...- tionaries of the seventeenth century sought to define philosophical (or sci- entific) communication in relation to other modes, which led Francis Bacon, John Locke, and others to investigate the role of language in cogni- tion. Their concern with semantics, referentiality...

.... As the early numbers of The Spectator were circulating around London in 1711, John Gay wrote that Steele, with Addison, had “set all our Wits and Men of Letters on a new way of Thinking, of which they had little or no notion before.”6 Addison’s and Steele’s papers struck contemporaries as new...

... Bahrdt, Carl Friedrich. “The Edict of Religion. A Comedy” and “The Story and Diary of My Imprisonment,” trans., ed., & intro. John Christian Laursen & Johan van der Zande (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2000). Pp. v + 131. $70, $21.95 paper. ISBN 0-7391-0089-0; 0090-4 Boyle, Nicholas. Goethe...

... that muddling work.” He was disappointed when the work was offered to Dr. Abraham Rees Life( , 2:203n3). Stockdale’s account, for which he is the only source, is difficult to rec- oncile with a series of Johnson’s letters from about this time, or with other documents gathered in John Nichols’s...

... and Genuine Character of Dr. Swift (1733). John Irwin Fischer contends that Swift is the ghost author of a verse squib called “In pity to the empty’ng Town.” James Woolley’s essay on Swift’s “Skinnibonia,” exemplary in The State of Swift Studies 2010    8 7 the clarity...

... irrelevant to the Scottish Enlightenment. After 1723, Scotland never lacked an improvement-oriented society having enlightened members. One can make a similar argument about politeness in the Enlightenment. If it counts, why are Sir John Clerk or the Earl of Kellie, the composers of unpublished...

...Roxann Wheeler Curran Andrew S. . The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. , 2011 ). Pp. xiv + 310. 29 ills. $75 Gikandi Simon . Slavery and the Culture of Taste . ( Princeton : Princeton Univ. , 2011...

...-8014-3945-0 Beal, Joan C. English Pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Spence’s ‘Grand Repository of the English Language’ (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 1999). Pp. 239. $105. isbn 0-19-823781-2 Beatty, John D., ed. Protestant Women’s...