| Evidence: | 'You will never in the world guess what sort of a pastime I have had resourse to in this windbound portion of my voyage. Nothing less than the reading of Kant's Transcendental Philosophy! So it is: I am at the hundred and fiftieth page of the Kritik der reinen verbubft; not only reading but partially understanding, and full of projects for instructing my benighted countrymen on the true merits of this sublime system at some more propitious season.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 19 Sep 1826 and 27 Sep 1826 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | Immanuel Kant |
| Title: | The Critique of Pure Reason |
| Genre: | Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | First published 1781, revised 1787 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 23640 | |
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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: | 4 | |
| Page: | 137 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 4, p. 137, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=23640, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
| Taken from letter from TC to Jane Baillie Welsh, dated 27th September, written at Scotsbrig. Pages 137-139 in this edition. Date range is an estimate based on the date of this letter and the date of his previous (also to JBW) dated 19th September in which he does not mention this book. |
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