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James Adams
James Craig
Alexander Geddes
Henry Raeburn
John Ainslie
William Creech
John Home
Allan Ramsay
James Beattie
George Drummond
David Hume
William Shaw
Hugh Blair
Gilbert Elliot
Samuel Johnson
Thomas Sheridan
William Brodie
Adam Ferguson
Malcolm Laing
John Sinclair
James Burnett
Robert Fergusson
Henry Mackenzie
Adam Smith
Alexander Carlyle
Archibald Grant
James Macpherson
James Thomson
James Adams (1737-1802)
John Ainslie (1745-1828)
James Beattie (1735-1803)
Hugh Blair (1718-1800)
William Brodie, known as Deacon Brodie, (1746-1788)
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-1799)
Alexander Carlyle (1722-1805)
James Craig (1739-1795)
William Creech (1745-1815)
George Drummond (1687-1766)
Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto (1722-1777)
Adam Ferguson (1723-1816)
Robert Fergusson (1750-1774)
Sir Archibald Grant (1696-1778)
Alexander Geddes (1737-1802)
John Home (1722-1808)
David Hume (1711-1776)
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Malcolm Laing (1762-1818)
Henry Mackenzie (1745-1831)
James Macpherson (1736-1796)
Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823)
Allan Ramsay (1713-1784)
William Shaw (1749-1831)
Thomas Sheridan (1719-1788)
Sir John Sinclair (1754–1835)
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
James Thomson (1700-1748)
Town
Planning
Source 1: A proposal for keeping the streets clean, 1734-5
Source 2: Proposals for improving the city of Edinburgh, 1752
Source 3: Proposals for improving the city of Edinburgh, 1752
Source 4: James Craig’s design for the New Town, 1768
Source 5: Map showing the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh, 1780
Source 6: James Craig’s proposal for improving the eastern approach to the Old Town, 1786
Source 7: Description of Edinburgh from the Statistical Account of Scotland, 1791-1799
Encyclopaedia
Britannica
Source 1: Title page to volume 1 of the first edition.
Source 2: Agriculture, volume 1 A-B, page 40
Source 3: Agriculture Plate IV, volume 1 A-B, page 41
Source 4: Mechanics, volume 1 M-Z, page 38
Source 5: Mechanics, volume 1 M-Z, plate CV
Source 6: Camelus or Camel, volume 1 A-B, page 13
Source 7: Bactrianus or Bactrian Camel, volume 1 A-B, Plate EIX
Source 8: Caricature of Andrew Bell and William Smellie by John Kay
Scotticisms
Source 1 : A list of Scotticisms by David Hume, first printed 1752
Source 2 : Lectures on the art of speaking English, 1761
Source 3 : A society for promoting the reading and speaking of English, 1761
Source 4 : Observations on the Scottish dialect by Sir John Sinclair, 1782
Source 5 : Teaching correct English to the young, 1799
Source 6 : The richness of the Scots language, 1792
Source 7 : In support of the Scots language, 1799
Statistical
Account
Source 1: Sir John Sinclair’s description of compiling the ‘Statistical Account’
Source 2: Sir John Sinclair’s discussion of the term ‘statistics’
Source 3: Part of the report for the Parish of Monymusk
Source 4: Part of the report for the Parish of Wick
Source 5: Statistical table for the Parish of Culross
Source 6: Report for the Parish of East Kilbride
Source 7: Report for the Parish of Smailholm
Ossian
Source 1: Preface to ‘Fragments of ancient poetry’, 1760
Source 2: Preface to ‘Fingal’, 1761
Source 3: Letter from David Hume, 1763
Source 4: Samuel Johnson’s opinion of the poems, 1775
Source 5: An enquiry into the authenticity of the poems, 1781
Source 6: ‘Poems of Ossian’ edited by Malcolm Laing, 1805
Source 7: Highland Society of Scotland report, 1805
Clubs and
Societies
Source 1: List of members of the Select Society
Source 2: Questions debated by the Select Society
Source 3: The aims of the Edinburgh Society
Source 4: A description of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, 1754
Source 5: Members of the Cape Club
Source 6: An account of the Cape Club
Source 7: Extract from the Highland Society of London Minute Book, 1784
Women and the Enlightenment
Resources
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John Adam. Section and Plan of a Church at Inveraray (1752-77)
Matthew Boulton and James Watt. ‘Directions for Erecting and Working the Newly-invented Steam Engines’ London?: Boulton and Watt, 1780
Adam Ferguson on the Militia Issue (1762)
Letter from Alexander Carlyle on the Foulis Academy (c.1759)
Letter from Robert Burns to Frances Dunlop on Scottish literary achievement (1790)
Letter from Hugh Blair to William Strahan on payment for his published work (1782)
David Hume ‘Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion’ (c.1751) Letter from Adam Smith to David Hume on his new book (1764)
David Hume ‘Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion’ (c.1751)
David Hume on the forced removal of his book purchases (1754)
Letter from William Robertson to Margaret Hepburn on ‘The History of Scotland’ (1759)
Letter from William King to Margaret Hepburn on learning Latin (1754)
Appointment of William Rouet to act on behalf of the University of Glasgow (1757)
John Playfair to William Robertson on scientific experiments at Schiehallion (1774)
Letter from David Hume to Adam Smith on the ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’ (1759)
Letter from Hugh Blair to Robert Burns on Scottish literary talent (1787)
Homer. Η του Ομηρου Ιλιαδος (1756)
Letter from Hugh Campbell, Earl of Loudoun to Sidney Godolphin, Earl of Godolphin on the Union between Scotland and England (1706)
‘Character of a certain popular historian’ (1779)
Letter from Robert Burns to John Murdoch on his literary influences (1783)
Letter from Joanna Baillie to Henry Mackenzie on her new play (1809)
Alison Cockburn
Letter from Robert Drummond to Hugh Montgomerie on the Disaster at Darien (1699)
Letter from David Hume to Rev. Robert Traill on religion (1755)
Anna Gordon. Ballads (c.1783)