| Evidence: | 'I spent the day in reading part of Irving's sermons, which I have not finished. On the whole he should not have published it - till after a considerable time. There is strong talent in it, true eloquence, and vigorous thought: but the foundation is rotten, and the building itself is a kind of monster in architecture - beautiful in parts - vast in dimensions - but on the whole decidedly a monster.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | 28 Sep 1823 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Nr. Dunkeld county: Perthshire specific address: Kinnaird House |
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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: | Writer / Academic |
| Religion: | Lapsed Calvinist |
| Country of origin: | Scotland |
| Country of experience: | Scotland |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Edward Irving |
| Title: | For The Oracles Of God, Four Orations |
| Genre: | Sermon |
| Form of Text: | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 17503 | |
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| Author: | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Editor: | C R Sanders | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
| Place of Publication: | Durham, North Carolina | |
| Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
| Vol: | 2 | |
| Page: | 440 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 2, p. 440, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17503, accessed: 10 June 2023 | |
| Taken from letter from TC to Margaret A. Carlyle dated 28 September 1823, written at Kinnaird House. Pages 438 - 441 in this edition. Title of book given in Editor's notes. See also Carlyle's letter to William Graham dated 24 April 1823 for another reference to this book (it not having yet arrived). |
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