Evidence: | 'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my want, among the second-hand bookstalls in Newcastle market-place, to light upon some off volumes of Milton?s prose works, which I bought for a few shillings. I read them all ? politics, theology, travels, with touches of autobiography- nothing came amiss to my voracious appetite. Over and over again did I read the Areopagitica, ?that sublime treatise? which, Macaulay tells us, ?every statesman should wear as a sign upon his hand and as frontlets between his eyes?.? |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1850 and 31 Dec 1855 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | county: Northumberland | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Thomas Burt |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 12 Nov 1837 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | Pitman, later MP |
Religion: | Methodist |
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 Milton |
Title: | Aeropagitica |
Genre: | Politics, Philosophy |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | second hand copies |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 6850 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Thomas Burt | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Thomas Burt, M. P., D. C. L., pitman & privy councillor : an autobiography | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1924 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 117 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Thomas Burt, Thomas Burt, M. P., D. C. L., pitman & privy councillor : an autobiography (London, 1924), p. 117, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=6850, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
probably read during 1852 |
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