| Evidence: | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 9 January 1782:]
'Alas, my dear friend, it is not a reflection on the writings or conversation of a licentious profligate infidel like the Abbe R---- that can compose the astonished mind amidst the awful terrors of a midnight storm, such as you so nobly describe: you well know that from sources such as these no solid comfort can be derived, why then will you idly spend your time in reading what ought never to have been written? But you do it, you say, merely for amusement: 'tis dangerous amusement to a mind like yours, indeed to any mind.' |
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| Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1781 and 9 Jan 1782 | ||||||||||
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| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Elizabeth Vesey |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 1715 |
| Socio-economic group: | Royalty / aristocracy |
| Occupation: | n/a |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | Ireland |
| Country of experience: | n/a |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | ?Thomas Francois ?Raynal |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 28312 | |
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| 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: | 4 | |
| Page: | 300-301 | |
| 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), 4, p. 300-301, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28312, accessed: 03 May 2024 | |
| Author of text/s read conjecturally identified by source ed.; see p.300n. |
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