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...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...

...Neil Hargraves The College of William & Mary 2003 Revelation of Character in Eighteenth-Century Historiography and William Robertson’s History of the Reign of Charles V Neil Hargraves...

...Jeffrey Smitten John Robertson. The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples, 1680-1760 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2005). Pp. 463. $90. £55. ISBN 0-521-84787-7 Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay Scotland and Naples...

... 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...

....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...

.... 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...

... paper. ISBN 1-4039-7167-6 Real, Hermann J., ed. The Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe. Athlone Critical Tradition Series (London: Continuum, 2006). Pp. 378. $250. £125. ISBN 0-8264-6847-0 Robertson, John. The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples, 1680 – 1760...

...: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...

... 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...

..., and Randy Robertson has written of his quietly polemical thrust in the face of censorship.13 How- ever, Lovelace s poems, political though they are, di”er from the British Prison- Ship, both in their treatment of imprisonment and in their status as texts. Raymond A. Anselment shows how Lovelace departs...

..., 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...

... and improvement. The eighteenth- century France of Jean- Jacques Rousseau is the setting for Ourida Mostefai s chapter, which considers Rousseau s application of Ancient political critiques to Modern circumstances. Finally, Ritchie Robertson moves on to late- eighteenth- century Germany, exploring how Johann...

... 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...

... to nominate their successors. The intellectual glories of the Scottish Enlighten- ment were made possible by his patronage and that of men like him, such as his nephew the Earl of Bute, who engineered the succession of the great his- torian and ecclesiastical politician William Robertson to the post...

... 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...

... 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...

... (Waco: Baylor Univ., 2010). Pp. ix + 281. $49.95 Robertson, Ian, with cartography by Martin Brown. An Atlas of the Peninsular War, 1 8 0 8  –  1 8 1 4 (New Haven: Yale Univ., 2010). Pp. xvi + 144. 35 ills. 77 maps. $55 Rockefeller, R. J. Their Magistrates and Officials: Executive Government...

... 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...