Northern Lights
Rosalind Mitchison, 19 April 1984
Literature and Gentility in Scotland
by David Daiches.
Edinburgh, 114 pp., £6.50, June 1982,9780852244388 Show More
by David Daiches.
Edinburgh, 114 pp., £6.50, June 1982,
New Perspectives on the Politics and Culture of Early Modern Scotland
edited by John Dwyer, Roger Mason and Alexander Murdoch.
John Donald, 340 pp., £15, August 1982,0 85976 066 9 Show More
edited by John Dwyer, Roger Mason and Alexander Murdoch.
John Donald, 340 pp., £15, August 1982,
Adam Smith
by R.H. Campbell and A.S. Skinner.
Croom Helm, 231 pp., £12.95, June 1982,9780709907299 Show More
by R.H. Campbell and A.S. Skinner.
Croom Helm, 231 pp., £12.95, June 1982,
Boswell: The Applause of the Jury 1782-1785
edited by Irma Lustig and Frederick Pottle.
Heinemann, 419 pp., £15, July 1982,0 434 43945 2 Show More
edited by Irma Lustig and Frederick Pottle.
Heinemann, 419 pp., £15, July 1982,
“... came naturally to Boswell, less naturally but effectively in the sentences of Adam Smith and David Hume, but at the cost of the reservation of the Scottish tongue for casual, domestic or low-life use. Yet, as Daiches reminds us, with an exceptionally happy choice of quotations, the literary endeavours of the upper class were accompanied by a genuine ... ”
