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See also:PINKERTON, See also:JOHN (1758–1826) , Scottish archaeologist, numismatist and author, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh on the 17th of See also:February 1758. He was articled as a See also:law clerk in Edinburgh, and his See also:Elegy on Craigmillar See also:Castle (1776) was printed during his clerkship. In 1781 he removed to See also:London to devote himself to See also:literary See also:work, See also:publishing in the same See also:year a See also:volume of Rimes of no See also:great merit, and Scottish Tragic See also:Ballads. These were followed in 1782 by Two Dithyrambic Odes on See also:Enthusiasm and See also:Laughter, and by a See also:series of Tales in See also:Verse. Under the See also:title of Select Scottish Ballads he reprinted in 1783 his tragic ballads, with a supplement comprising Ballads of the Comic See also:Kind. See also:Ritson pointed out in 1784 that the so-called See also:ancient ballads were some of them of See also:modern date, and Pinkerton confessed that he was the author of the second See also:part of See also:Hardy Kanute and part author of some others. He published an See also:Essay on Medals in 1784, and in 1785, under the See also:pseudonym of " See also:Robert See also:Heron," his bold but See also:eccentric Letters of Literature depreciating the classical authors of See also:Greece and See also:Rome. In 1786 he edited Ancient Scottish Poems from the MS. collections of See also:Sir See also:Richard See also:Maitland of Lethington—a genuine See also:reproduction. It was succeeded in 1787 by a compilation, under the new pseudonym of " H. Bennet," entitled The See also:Treasury of Wit, and by his first important See also:historical work, the Dissertation on the Origin and Progress of the Scythians or Goths, to which See also:Gibbon acknowledged himself indebted. Pinkerton next ccllected and printed in 1789 certain Vitae sanctorum scotiae, and, a little later, published his Enquiry into the See also:History of See also:Scotland preceding the Reign of See also:Malcolm III. His assertion that the See also:Celtic See also:race was incapable of assimilating the highest forms of See also:civilization excited " violent disgust," but the Enquiry was twice reprinted, in 1794 and 1814, and is still of value for the documents embodied in it. His edition of See also:Barbour's See also:Bruce and a Medallic History of See also:England to the Revolution appeared in 179o; a collection of Scottish Poems reprinted from scarce See also:Editions in 1792; and a series of See also:biographical sketches, the Iconographia scotica, in the years 1795–1797. In 1797 he published a History of Scotland from the See also:Accession of the See also:House of See also:Stuart to that of See also:Mary, containing much valuable material. A new biographical collection, the See also:Gallery of Eminent Persons of Scotland (1799), was succeeded after a See also:short See also:interval by a Modern See also:Geography digested on a New See also:Plan (1802; enlarged, 1807). About this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he See also:left London for See also:Paris, where he made his headquarters until his See also:death on the loth of See also:March 1826. His remaining publications were the Recollections of Paris in the years 1802–3–4–5 (18o6); a very useful See also:General Collection of Voyages and Travels (1808–1814); a New Modern See also:Atlas (18o8–1819) ; and his Petralogy (1811).
End of Article: PINKERTON, JOHN (1758–1826)
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