Evidence: | Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'Modern history indeed refutes my wise conclusions, by presenting us with an almost similar character [ie to one in fiction], Lord Bolingbroke, whom Pope distinguishes by the epithet of all-accomplished St. John. He addressed his Essay on Man to him, and speaks of him on all occasions with the most enthusiastic admiration. Swift does almost the same; and Chesterfield, who only saw him in extreme old age, when he might be thought to have outlived his talents and his graces, was yet dazzled with his person and address ?.
?. Thus, without heart, without truth or morals, this man [ie Lord Bolingbroke] was enabled to captivate and do mischief, not only all his life, but even after death. The deistical writings he left behind were not the result of self-conviction, or a desire to convince others, but the mere vanity of exploring the trackless wastes of speculation, of overthrowing established opinions, and thus creating a region in which to rule. It was like Satan?s expedition in search of some domain, where he might exercise power and produce misery'.
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1755 and 3 Oct 1778 | ||||||||||
Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1755 |
Socio-economic group: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
Occupation: | Wife/widow of Church of Scotland minister then author |
Religion: | Church of Scotland |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | unknown |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Alexander Pope |
Title: | Essay on man |
Genre: | Poetry |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 13933 | |
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Author: | Anne Grant | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Letters from the mountains; being the real correspondence of a lady, between the year 1773 and 1807 | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1807 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 48-9 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Anne Grant, Letters from the mountains; being the real correspondence of a lady, between the year 1773 and 1807 (London, 1807), 2, p. 48-9, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=13933, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
Date range given as birth to date of letter; |
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