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Record Number: 11268


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Writing to his sister, Aikin comments on Knox: 'His great fault, I think, is setting out with too confined a view of the ends of education, which must be as various as situations and characters in life are. Does he not breed them all for clergymen and schoolmasters?'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1784 and 1 Dec 1784

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

John Aikin

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1747

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Physician and author

Religion:

Protestant dissenter- Unitarian

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Knox

Title:

[on education]

Genre:

Education

Form of Text:

Unknown

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

11268

Source:

Print

Author:

Lucy Aikin

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Memoir of John Aikin

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1823

Vol:

1

Page:

59

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Lucy Aikin, Memoir of John Aikin (London, 1823), 1, p. 59, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=11268, accessed: 02 May 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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