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Record Number: 28836


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[...] Stanley- Gisborne- Shelley- Lancaster: exceedingly desultory & alas exceedingly idle. Did a very few Lat. vss & Greek Iambb.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

31 Oct 1828

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Oxford
county: Oxfordshire

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

William Ewart Gladstone

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

n/a

Date of Birth:

29 12 1809

Socio-Economic Group:

n/a

Occupation:

Student at Oxford University

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Thomas William Lancaster

Title:

The harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of a

Genre:

Other religious

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Oxford: Printed at the University Press for J. Parker, 1825

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

28836

Source:

Print

Author:

William Gladstone

Editor:

Foot M.R.D.

Title:

The Gladstone Diaries

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1968

Vol:

1

Page:

330

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

William Gladstone, Foot M.R.D. (ed.), The Gladstone Diaries (Oxford, 1968), 1, p. 330, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=28836, accessed: 29 March 2024


Additional Comments:

Footnote in Foot's edition identifies this text. There is no copy at the Hawarden Library. It is the only edition of this text published at this date. Gladstone's Library Includes the edition published by Oxford University Press. 3 vols, 1827-34.

   
   
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