Evidence: | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 May 1760:]
'To-day I have been reading with due wrath and abomination "Le Philosophe Sans Souci." Some lines in that wickedest of all books are so evidently taken from the wrong reasonings of the ungodly in the Wisdom of Solomon, chap. 2, that I confess to me they are perfectly harmless, but I tremble to think what mischief they will do in the fine world. In other parts of the book there seem to be really pretty things -- but how is it possible a man should be such an ideot? How unaccountable is it that pride [...] should make a writer so very mean and grovelling as to triumph in the very thought of annihilation, rather than acknowledge any being in the universe superior to himself? But there would be more use in writing these things to [italics] him [end italics] than to you, so I will have done.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | 8 May 1760 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Lambeth | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Catherine Talbot |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 16 May 1721 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | King Frederick of Prussia |
Title: | Oeuvres du philosophe de Sans-Souci |
Genre: | Other religious, Philosophy |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28220 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Montagu Pennington | |
Title: | A Series of Letters between Mrs Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770. To which are added, Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1809 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 327-328 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Montagu Pennington (ed.), A Series of Letters between Mrs Elizabeth Carter and Miss Catherine Talbot, from the year 1741 to 1770. To which are added, Letters from Mrs Elizabeth Carter to Mrs Vesey, between the years 1763 and 1787 (London, 1809), 2, p. 327-328, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28220, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
On 19 May 1760, Carter wrote to Talbot: 'I suppose you have heard that the Philosophe Sans Souci has thought proper to disown that horrid book, and order it to be burnt by the hands of the common hangman. Surely that ought to be its fate in every country that calls itself Christian' (see p.330 in source). |
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