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- Nor shall I speak about Biot's traite de physique of which, to tell the truth, I have scarcely read 100 pages.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 27 Nov 1818 and 8 Jan 1819 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Edinburgh | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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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: | Jean Baptiste Biot |
Title: | Traite de Physique |
Genre: | Science |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | published 1816, 4 vols |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 6620 | |
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=6620, accessed: 04 December 2023 |
Taken from letter from Carlyle to James Johnston, dated 8th January 1819, written at Edinburgh. Pages 155-159 in this edition. I cannot find a reference to Carlyle obtaining the work (to give a start date for an estimated date range) - so the start date of this date range is an estimate. Publication information given by Editor of this edition of Carlyle's letters. |
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