Evidence: | 'We were talking of people who read awkwardly not knowing what they were about: Mr Johnson protested he knew two Lads at Pembroke who lived in the same department and one of him [sic] told him that the other had been reading Chillingworth for the last week very diligently leaving a [italics] Mark [end italics] always in the place he left off, which his [italics] Chumm [end italics] moved a few pages backward every Day, & so forced him unknown to himself to go over the same Ground without advancing one Jot or ever finding the Joke out'. |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 31 Oct 1728 and 1 Dec 1729 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Oxford specific address: Pembroke College |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | anon |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | student |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | n/a |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | a friend of Johnson |
Author: | William Chillingworth |
Title: | Religion of Protestants a Safe Way to Salvation |
Genre: | Other religious |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 22683 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Hester Lynch Thrale | |
Editor: | Katharine C Balderston | |
Title: | Thraliana | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1951 | |
Vol: | I | |
Page: | 99 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Hester Lynch Thrale, Katharine C Balderston (ed.), Thraliana (Oxford, 1951), I , p. 99, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=22683, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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