DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-DB006-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
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Version: v1, Published online: 1998
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Article Summary
Blair was the foremost literary critic and preacher of the Scottish Enlightenment. He participated in the thriving cultural life of eighteenth-century Edinburgh, and along with William Robertson, Adam Ferguson and other enlightened Moderate party clergymen was a close friend of that city’s greatest philosopher, David Hume.
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