| Evidence: | 'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than powerful or philosophical narrative which Horace Benedict Saussure gives of his journeys in the Alps. I am in the third quarto-' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 27 Nov 1818 and 8 Jan 1819 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Edinburgh | ||||||||||
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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: | Horace Benedict Saussure |
| Title: | Voyage dans les Alpes |
| Genre: | Geography / Travel |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Neuchatel, 1779-96 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 6619 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Editor: | CR Sanders | |
| Title: | The Collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
| Place of Publication: | Durham, North Carolina | |
| Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 158 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, CR Sanders (ed.), The Collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 158, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6619, accessed: 31 March 2023 | |
| Taken from letter from Carlyle to James Johnston, dated 8th January 1819, written at Edinburgh. Pages 155-159 in this edition. Dates of reading based on his mentioning the work in a letter to Robert Mitchell dated 27th November 1818, in which he states that he has got the book and intends to read it, and the date of the current letter. Publication information given by Editor of this edition of Carlyle's letters. |
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