 | Hugh Walker - 1915 - 400 Seiten
...booksellers, whose wares they lauded indiscriminately.1 The birthplace of the new Review was Edinburgh, " in the eighth or ninth story or flat in Buccleuch-place, the elevated residence of the then Mr. Jeffrey," says Sydney Smith. There in 1802 met four men, Sydney Smith himself, Francis Jeffrey, Henry Brougham... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1846 - 1190 Seiten
...(late Lord Advocate for Scotland,) and Lord Brougham; all of them maintaining opinions upon political subjects a little too liberal for the dynasty of Dundas,...happened to meet in the eighth or ninth story or flat in Buceleuch-place, the elevated residence of the then Mr. Jeffrey. I proposed that we should set up a... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1880 - 328 Seiten
...young men, it was proposed to start a Review. " One day," says the author of Peter Plymley's letters, "we happened to meet in the eighth or ninth story, or flat, in Buccleugh Place, the elevated residence of the then Mr. Jeffrey. I proposed that we should get up a... | |
 | 1927 - 930 Seiten
...venture was conceived: Towards the end of my residence in Edinburgh, Brougham, Jeffrey, and myself happened to meet in the eighth or ninth story or flat in Buccleugh Place, the then elevated residence of Mr. Jeffrey. I proposed that we should set up a Review,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 538 Seiten
...more humble commencement. Smith says in his preface, that Jeffrey, Murray, and himself, " one day, happened to meet in the eighth or ninth story or flat in Buccleugh Place, the elevated residence of the then Mr. Jeffrey. I proposed, that we should set up... | |
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Review; this was acceded to •with acclamation. I was appointed Editor, and remained long enough in Edinburgh to edit the first number of the Edinburgh Review. 
