Evidence: | 'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerable surprise - the bold avowall of his sentiments on Hume's doctrine - "The Christian Instructor" attacks him with considerable asperity - and, I think, success. Hume's essays, I have not read - and therefore cannot condemn - The evidence of testimony, too, no doubt has its limits - But as far as I can judge, all that is urged either by La Place or His reviewer - does not at all affect Christianity.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1815 and 1 Feb 1815 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Annan | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Reader: | Thomas Carlyle |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 4 Dec 1795 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | teacher, later man of letters |
Religion: | Christian |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Sir John Leslie [or Playfair?] |
Title: | review of Laplace's Essai philosophique sur les probabilites |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | Edinburgh Review, September 1814 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 12910 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Charles Richard Sanders | |
Title: | The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
Place of Publication: | Durham, NC | |
Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
Vol: | I | |
Page: | 39 | |
Additional comments: | Letter to Thomas Murray |
Citation: | Charles Richard Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, NC, 1970), I, p. 39, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12910, accessed: 01 June 2023 |
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