| Evidence: | I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called, by Tobias Smollett MD and others was a much harder and more unprofitable task. Next I read Gibbon's decline and fall of the Roman empire - a work of immense research and splendid execution. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Nov 1817 and 15 Feb 1818 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Kirkcaldy (probably) | ||||||||||
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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 Gibbon |
| Title: | Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire |
| Genre: | History |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Published between 1737 and 1794 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4424 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Editor: | C R Sanders | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
| Place of Publication: | Durham, South Carolina | |
| Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 120 | |
| Additional comments: | Taken from letter from Carlyle to Robert Mitchell, dated 16th February 1818, written at Kirkcaldy. Pages 118-122 in this edition. |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, South Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 120, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4424, accessed: 05 June 2023 | |
| See RED ref 2930 for earlier reference to this work in letter dated 19th November 1817. Dates of reading experience are estimate based on the fact that in the earlier letter he has read one volume of the work. He does not say exactly when or where he reads it. |
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