| Evidence: | 'I hope you like Horner's "Life". It succeeds extremely well here. It is full of all the exorbitant and impracticable views so natural to young men at Edinburgh; but there is great order, great love of knowledge, high principle and feelings, which ought to grow and trive in superior minds'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 8 Apr 1843 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Sydney Smith |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 3 Jun 1771 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
| Occupation: | Clergyman and writer |
| Religion: | Christian |
| 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: | Leonard Horner |
| Title: | Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P. |
| Genre: | Biography, Letters |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 13080 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Nowell C. Smith | |
| Title: | The Letters of Sydney Smith | |
| Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
| Date of Publication: | 1953 | |
| Vol: | II | |
| Page: | 782 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Nowell C. Smith (ed.), The Letters of Sydney Smith (Oxford, 1953), II, p. 782, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13080, accessed: 04 June 2023 | |
| Letter to Dr Whewell. Sydney Smith contributed to this book. |
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