'Dr Young once told me, that Dr Hartley's Two Volumes on Man were the Most Original of any thing he had seen published of many years. He praised them; but owned, that one of them was abstruse'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dr (Edward?) Young Print: Book
'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro', tho' without Hopes of understanding the abstruser Parts'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book
'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro', tho' without Hopes of understanding the abstruser Parts.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Bradshaigh Print: Book
Harriet Martineau on philosophical studies in early adulthood: 'The edition of Hartley that I used was Dr. Priestley's [...] That book I studied with a fervour and perseverance which made it perhaps the most important book in the world to me, except the bible'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book
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Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson from Forest House, Leyton, Essex, 4 October 1830:
'I am living here in a very pleasant place, an old country mansion, in the depths of the Forest [...] I have been studious too, partly after my fashion, and partly after my father [historian Henry Hallam]'s; i.e. I read six books of Herodotus with him, and I take occasional plunges into David Hartley, and Buhle's Philosophie Moderne for my own gratification.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam Print: Book
