Evidence: | '"Sunday (said he) was a heavy day to me when I was a boy. My mother confined me on that day, and made me read "The Whole Duty of Man", from a great part of which I could derive no instruction. When, for instance, I had read the chapter on theft, which from my infancy I had been taught was wrong, I was no more convinced that theft was wrong than before; so there was no accession of knowledge".' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1712 and 18 Sep 1727 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | daytime: on Sundays | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Lichfield county: Staffordshire |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Samuel Johnson |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 18 Sep 1709 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | later writer |
Religion: | n/a |
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: | Richard Allestree |
Title: | Whole Duty of Man, The |
Genre: | Other religious, Philosophy |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned owned by his mother |
Record ID: | 20714 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Boswell | |
Editor: | R. W. Chapman | |
Title: | Life of Johnson | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 50 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Boswell, R. W. Chapman (ed.), Life of Johnson (Oxford, 1980), p. 50, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20714, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
Originally published 1791. |
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