| Evidence: | 'I, moreover, found my Sunday pursuits and amusements to be powerfully instrumental in cheering and elevating my "inner man"... That I might make the day as long as possible, I rose early: if the mornings were at all fine, I walked in the adjacent fields where I found ample amusement in either reading the book of nature or some humbler volume, without which I took care never [last word underlined] to go out on these excursions.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1808 and 31 Dec 1808 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | morning: Sunday mornings | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: Fields near home | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Thomas Carter |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 5 Jul 1792 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | Apprentice tailor |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | [unknown] |
| Title: | [unknown] |
| Genre: | Unknown |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 7470 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Thomas Carter | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Memoirs of a Working Man | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1845 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 106 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Carter, Memoirs of a Working Man (London, 1845), p. 106, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7470, accessed: 25 April 2024 | |
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