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...” that confirmed him to abandon his plans to emigrate and try his poetic fortunes in Edinburgh. But while this story has often been recounted, scant critical attention has been paid to Burns’s reflection that “the Doctor belonged to a set of Critics whose applause I had not even dared to hope.” The lack...

... on the Scottish Enlightenment has rightly emphasized the pivotal role of Edinburgh, and although valuable perspectives have also been offered for Glasgow and Aberdeen, we currently know next-to-nothing about urban intellectual life elsewhere in late-eighteenth-century Scotland.4 This fact alone would probably...

... on the facial expressions of George Henderson of Abernethy was a “minister of the gospel and practitioner of physic,” Alexander Pirie, who told how the subject “opened his eyes and looked in a wild manner”;28 and in 1807 the Professor of Med- icine in the University of Edinburgh, Dr. James Gregory, gave...

... leaving Edinburgh after his eventful fi rst winter in the Scottish capital, Robert Burns wrote to the Reverend Hugh Blair, retired Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at Edinburgh Uni- versity, thanking him for “that kindness, that patronage, that friendship” that the older man had shown him.1...

... Simon Fraser University On August 6th, 1706, less than a year before the passing of the Act of Union that yoked England and Scotland uneasily together into the single political entity known as Great Britain, the Edinburgh Courant ran an advertisement for the first volume of a collection...

... Matthew Simpson University of St Andrews Edinburgh in the later eighteenth century had an international reputation as a center of polite learning and living. The poet Robert Fergusson (1750– 74) took a lively but not uncritical part...

... Enlightenment. He never was a political historian, as he himself says. However, he always was a cultural historian and an insti- tutional historian with an increasingly prosopographical approach. From the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh he progressed to studies of the physical and medical sciences...

... of Scotland At the age of seventy, the Reverend Professor Adam Ferguson of the Uni- versity of Edinburgh, father of the science of sociology, historian and phi- losopher of world renown, founder of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and sometime keeper of the Advocates’ Library, found himself in Italy...

.... (Edinburgh: Nelson, 1980), has many small errors and was written from a collection of letters that has been much augmented by the eff orts of many scholars, particularly Mossner and David Raynor.1 Also, the Hume manuscripts have been redated by M. A. Stewart, while David Fate Norton and Mary Norton...

... by William Leechman (1706–85), who eventually became Professor of Divinity of Glasgow and Principal of the College, largely through the influence of his former pupil. Later the young Mure studied law at both Edinburgh and Leyden, as so many other Scots did then. While abroad he traveled extensively...

... in the printing world of late eighteenth-century Edinburgh, as editor of the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1768 – 71), as the most important English transla- tor of the comte de Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle (1780), and as the author of The Philosophy of Natural History (1790, 1799).6...

... Authentic Ship News, and sold by A. More, near St. Paul's, and at Pamphlet Shops in London and Westminster. [Falconer, William.] A poem, sacred to the memory of his Royal Highness Frederic Prince of Wales . By W. F. Edinburgh [n.p.]. Miller, John. Poems on Several Occasions. To which...

... Independent Scholar, Edinburgh This essay examines the idea of character in eighteenth-century historical writing through a consideration of the function it performs in William Robertson’s influential History of the Reign of Charles V (1769).1 There have been few sustained discussions of the concept...

... (Dublin: Four Courts, 2010). Pp. 121. $30 Cardoza, Thomas. Intrepid Women: Cantinières and Vivandières of the French Army (Bloomington: Indiana Univ., 2010). Pp. xiv + 295. $39.50 Carruther, Gerard, ed. The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ., 2009). Pp. x...

... Spring also contained the “Proposals for printing by subscription The Four Seasons.” Subscription payments of one guinea were accepted by Millan, Millar, and William Strahan, Millar’s former apprentice, in Lon- don, and by poet-bookseller Allan Ramsay in Edinburgh. The proposal states...

.... 1750; and its “golden age” or “heyday” from 1760 to 1790 (37). After that, it declines, as do the Edinburgh- and London-based firms that published its major texts, but its diffusion in Ireland and America went on through reprinted works, which sometimes added new materials of a nationalist sort...

... they were kept in a chest in the Crown Room in Edinburgh Castle, well away from the hands of the exiled Stuarts. Even during the Jacobite occupation of Edinburgh in late 1745, the Honours remained safe in the custody of two aged but indomitable Hanoverian officers...

... of the Aberdeen Musical Society, which put on concerts and followed the latest scores by Handel, Corelli, and other Europeans, distinguished between classical and folk music in a paper he read to the Edinburgh Philosophical Society in 1763, giving the preference to indigenous folk music. Classical music...

... in mind. In order to understand how these discoveries were presented to Austen’s contemporaries, and how they might have thought about them, I here consider the novel together with a review of Cuvier’s writings that was published in The Edinburgh Review of May 1811. That contemporaries...

...., 2005). Pp. 493. 53 ills., incl. 27 color. $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-674-01758-7 Hogg, James. The Collected Letters of James Hogg: Vol. 1: 1800 –1819, ed. Gillian Hughes. The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ., 2004...