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Record 27405

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
Sir Alexander Burnes to John Murray, 'On the Nile,' 30 March 1835: 'The Quarterly is lying before me [...] I have been reperusing the very article which treats of Mahommed Ali in that able essay regarding the encroachment of Russia. The Journal from which the quotations are made regarding the state and government of Egypt prove the writer to have been an accurate and an acute observer, but I do think that he has been too severe on the Pasha. To be sure he [Pasha] is a wholesale merchant and a wholesale oppressor, but compare him with his predecessors in this land of bondsmen, and then judge [comments further].'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Mar 1835 and 30 Mar 1835
Country: Egypt
Time: n/a
Place: city: Cairo
   
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:Sir Alexander Burnes
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth n/a
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: n/a
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: Egypt
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Sir John MacNeill
Title: 'England, France, Russia, and Turkey'
Genre: Essays / Criticism, Politics
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: In The Quarterly Review, published by John Murray
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 27405  
Source - Print  
  Author: Samuel Smiles
  Editor: n/a
  Title: A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1891
  Vol: 2
  Page: 394
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray (London, 1891), 2, p. 394, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=27405, accessed: 29 March 2024

Additional comments:

Author and title of text identified by source author.

 

 

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