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William Lecky : History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne

'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of his Psychology'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

  

W. E. H. Lecky : History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne

[Following notes on 'squabble' between SS. Jerome and Augustine] 'Extracted from ch. iv of Lecky's "Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne", interesting, ill-indexed, strong on the Egyptian anchorites.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Print: Book

  

Lecky : European Morals

From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during these months, also Tom Hughes' Alfred the Great, Pressense's Life of Christ, Martineau's Endeavours After a Christian Life, and Lecky's European Morals.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Tennyson      Print: Book

  

William Edward Hartpole Lecky : Map of Life

'Mrs Edminson then read an interesting paper on Lecky's Map of Life'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson      Print: Book

  

Lecky : History of the Eighteenth Century in England

14 July 1878: 'Enid amused me with a book by Ouida, called Friendship, founded on the life of Mrs. Ross, Sir A. Gordon's daughter, very mischievous. Presently C[harles]. S[chreiber]. came out, and I read him the commencement of Lecky's History of the XVIIIth Century in England.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber      Print: Book

 

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