Evidence: | 'I went through that extraordinary work of Lord Monboddo on the "Origin of Language". I was entertained and instructed from the singularity of the system, the many erroneous and yet plausible arguments on which it is founded, the infinite display of learning. A mind wedded to antiquity is the source together with a strong imagination easily biased from Credulity, of the principles offered in this work. I should apprehend the criticisms to be good in many parts... There is too much classical learning in it to allow me to form a Judgement of it, as a learned work. Indeed it is not to be supposed I understood it in a followed manner [.] Yet I never throw aside a book because it makes me feel an ignorance I am not ashamed of from its being one belonging to my Sphere as a female. I read on and often reap much information from the mere introduction to scholars.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | 19 Feb | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Anna Larpent |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1758 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Diplomat's daughter and civil servant's wife |
Religion: | unknown |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Lord Monboddo |
Title: | Of the origin and progress of language |
Genre: | Philosophy, Science, Natural history |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1773-1792 (6 vols), by James Burnett, Lord Monboddo |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 5968 | |
Source - | Manuscript | |
Author: | Anna Larpent | |
Title: | Diaries | |
Location: | Huntingdon Library | |
Call no: | HM 31201 | |
Page/folio: | Date 31 July 1780 |
Citation: | Anna Larpent, Diaries Huntingdon Library, p. HM 31201, p. Date 31 July 1780, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5968, accessed: 24 April 2024 |
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