| Evidence: | 'You are not to think that I am fretful. I have long accustomed my mind to look upon the future with a sedate aspect; and at any rate, my hopes have never yet failed me. A French Author (D'Alembert, one of the few persons who deserve the honourable epithet of honest man) whom I was lately reading, remarks that one who devotes his life to learning ought to carry for his motto-Liberty, Truth, Poverty; for her that fears the latter can never have the former.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
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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 le Rond D'Alembert |
| Title: | Unknown |
| Genre: | Philosophy |
| Form of Text: | Print: Unknown |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 7333 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Editor: | C R Sanders | |
| Title: | The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle | |
| Place of Publication: | Durham, North Carolina | |
| Date of Publication: | 1970 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 174 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle (Durham, North Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 174, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7333, accessed: 10 June 2023 | |
| Taken from letter from Carlyle to Margaret Carlyle (mother) dated 29th March 1819, written at Edinburgh. Pages 173 - 175 in this edition. |
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