| Evidence: | But too much of one thing - as it is in the adage. Therefore I reserve the account of Hume's essays till another opportunity. At any rate the Second volume is not finished yet - and I do not like what I have read of any thing so well as I did the first. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Dec 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: | David Hume |
| Title: | Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 2 vols |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | 2 Vols, pub. London & Edinburgh 1777 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 4425 | |
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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, South Carolina | |
| Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 121 | |
| 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. 121, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=4425, accessed: 01 June 2023 | |
| Dates of reading experience are estimate based on the fact that it is the first mention of the work since his last letter to Mitchell. He does not say exactly when or where he reads it. |
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