Chapter 1 k EDINBURGH , CAPITAL OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
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How high the situation of poor Scotland . . . in arts, in arms, and in litera ture—her universities every year more crowded—her philosophers advanc ing with so proud a career in the field of science—her little junta of accom plished men in the first literary journal that ever appeared in any country, giving law to the republic of letters—her moralists improving—her poets delighting the world. —Christian Isobel Johnstone, The Saxon and the Gaël; or, The Northern Metropolis (1814)
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