All 3 Uses of
Edinburgh
in
Middlemarch
- …his scientific interest soon took the form of a professional enthusiasm: he had a youthful belief in his bread-winning work, not to be stifled by that initiation in makeshift called his 'prentice days; and he carried to his studies in London, Edinburgh, and Paris, the conviction that the medical profession as it might be was the finest in the world; presenting the most perfect interchange between science and art; offering the most direct alliance between intellectual conquest and the…†
Chpt 2 *
- …on his equals, and also to obscure the limit between his own rank as a general practitioner and that of the physicians, who, in the interest of the profession, felt bound to maintain its various grades,—especially against a man who had not been to either of the English universities and enjoyed the absence of anatomical and bedside study there, but came with a libellous pretension to experience in Edinburgh and Paris, where observation might be abundant indeed, but hardly sound.†
Chpt 2
- I recollect they said that in 'The Edinburgh' somewhere—it must be true up to a certain point."†
Chpt 4
Definition:
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(Edinburgh) capital of Scotland and a popular tourist destination