Evidence: | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias. He marks the the doctrine "that we ought to be more afraid of wronging than of being wronged, and that the prime business of every man is, not to seem good, but to be good, in all his private and public dealings" with three pencil lines, and writes]: "This just and noble conclusion atones for much fallacy in the reasoning by which Socrates arrived at it [...] it is impossible not to consider it [the Gorgias] as one of the greatest performances which have descended to us from that wonderful generation." |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 May 1837 and 31 Dec 1839 | ||||||||||
Country: | India | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Calcutta | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Thomas Babington Macaulay |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 25 Oct 1800 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Historian and critic |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | India |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Plato |
Title: | Gorgias |
Genre: | Classics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | The edition published in Frankfort, 1602, with a parallel Latin translation by Marsilius Ficinus |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 1634 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Thomas Babington Macaulay | |
Editor: | George Otto Trevelyan | |
Title: | The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1978 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 438 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Thomas Babington Macaulay, George Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Oxford, 1978), 2, p. 438, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1634, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
This entry records Macaulay's later experience of reading the Gorgias, while a government official in Calcutta. |
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