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Record 6569

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the books with which the shelves were stored. The "Age of Reason" was among the first; and, in order that both sides of the question might be fairly presented to my mind, was immediately followed by Bishop Watson's "Apology for the Bible". I should have read neither. What mischief the infidel writer effected the Bishop failed to repair.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Jan 1821 and 31 Dec 1821
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: other location: work
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Charles Manby Smith
Age Child (0-17)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1804
Socio-economic group: Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder
Occupation: Apprentice printer
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Bishop Watson
Title: Apology for the bible
Genre: Other religious
Form of Text: Print: Book
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: borrowed (other)
from shelves at work

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 6569  
Source - Print  
  Author: Charles Manby Smith
  Editor: n/a
  Title: The working man's way in the world
  Place of Publication: London
  Date of Publication: 1857
  Vol: n/a
  Page: 10
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Charles Manby Smith, The working man's way in the world (London, 1857), p. 10, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6569, accessed: 28 March 2024

Additional comments:

About 1821

 

 

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