Evidence: | 'I returned home and read four chapters of Winn's abridgement of Lock[e] on the human understanding. The transition from such a dissipate scene [a party she has left] to the deep reflection of my study [...] was easier than I expected: how much more was I pleased with myself whilst thus exercising the faculties of a reasonable mind, in endeavouring to discover the sources of those faculties, to form them properly; to improve them, than when I was dipping a curtsey to one, forcing a smile for another, hearing nonsense from a 3rd or what is worse talking nonsense to a fourth.' |
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Century: | 1700-1799 | ||||||||||
Date: | 19 Feb 1779 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening: after a party | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Anna Larpent |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 1758 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Diplomat's daughter and civil servant's wife |
Religion: | unknown |
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: | John Locke |
Title: | Essay on human understanding |
Genre: | Philosophy |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | Abridged version by Winn |
Provenance: | read in situ |
Record ID: | 5960 | |
Source - | Manuscript | |
Author: | Anna Larpent | |
Title: | Diaries | |
Location: | Huntingdon Library | |
Call no: | HM 31201 | |
Page/folio: | Date 19 Feb 1779 |
Citation: | Anna Larpent, Diaries Huntingdon Library, p. HM 31201, p. Date 19 Feb 1779, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=5960, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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