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Joseph Evans

 

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Mary Wollstonecraft : Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden

'Took "Letters from Norway & c" back to the Vestry Library. I did not read them, but Mr E. said they were very entertaining & instructive; brought Mrs Wollstonecraft "View of the French Revolution".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Evans      Print: Book

  

Thomas Pennant : Outlines of the Globe: the View of Hindoostan

'Took Pennant's "View of Hindoostan" to Library; I have not read it but, Mr E. says it is very entertaining. There are some beautiful plates in it.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Evans      Print: Book

  

Edward Gibbon : History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire

'I was too much engaged with Gibbon to bestow time on reading "Causes and Consequences"; Mr E. However, read it & was pleased with it.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Evans      Print: Book

  

Patrick Colquhoun : Treatise of the police of the metrpolis

'Took Colquhoun's "treatise of the police of the metropolis" to the library. I have not read it but, Mr Evans has; he says that he gives a most dreadful idea of the state of London; he says there are no less than 200, 000 persons, who when they get up in the morning do not know where they shall lay their head at night. That very miserable story, which I have cut out of an old "Iris" & is amongst the rest of the newspaper scraps, & entitled "On the Police of Paris" Mr Col[...] says was related to him by a Foreign Ambassador, who was at Paris at the time.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Evans      Print: Book

 

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