Evidence: | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on the manner in which accumulation takes place. Neither Say nor Turgot completely satisfy my mind on this subject [...] Dined alone. Read some scenes in Schiller's "Don Carlos." Considered as complete dramas, I think both "Don Carlos" and "Marie Stuart" are very defective. There is too much mixture of paltry and unimportant intrigue in each [...] There are, however, most masterly single scenes to be found in them [...] After reading this, I practised on the bass for about an hour, then drank tea, and read Adam Smith's incomparable chapter on the Mercantile System until 11, when I went to bed.
'Rose at 6. Read some more of A. Smith on the Mercantile System [...] Dined at 1/2 past 5. Read Don Carlos, and played on the bass for the next two hours, when I went and locked up [the family banking house]; drank tea at 1/2 past 8, and began some more of Say; but I found my mind languid, so that I was obliged to change my study, and took up a dissertation of Turgot, "Sur les valeurs et monnoies," which I read with considerable attention. Went to bed soon after 11.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 17 Oct 1818 and 18 Oct 1818 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | morning: 6.30 am - 12 pm | ||||||||||
Place: | city: London | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | George Grote |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 17 Nov 1794 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Banker |
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: | Jean Baptiste Say |
Title: | n/a |
Genre: | Social Science, Politics, Economics |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 25016 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Harriet Grote | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | The Personal Life of George Grote by Mrs Grote. Compiled from Family Documents, Private Memoranda, and Original Letters to and from Various Friends | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1873 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 30-31 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Harriet Grote, The Personal Life of George Grote by Mrs Grote. Compiled from Family Documents, Private Memoranda, and Original Letters to and from Various Friends (London, 1873), p. 30-31, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=25016, accessed: 28 November 2023 |
Dates of individual diary entries not all given in source. |
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