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John A. Carlyle : Thesis for medical degree "De Mentis Alientione" (On Diseases Of The Mind)

'I have read these leaves of your thesis; and really I find them very far beyond my expectation, which had satisfied itself with ranking your Latin (I now discover) far too little above the usual Grinder Latin. Some of these sentences are quite good. The sense too so far as it extends in these few lines is clear and flowing; and I have no doubt, if the rest in any way correspond to it, your Essay will be very far above the average.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Degree thesis

John A. Carlyle : Letter dated 6th Feb, Munich

'We are greatly pleased with your sketches of 'German character'; your Oken, your pert Surgeon, your Schelli[n]g &c must surely be pictures from the Life. Becker says Oken and Wilhelmi are true portraits, as I described them from your letter. Above all I am glad to find both that you admire Schelling and know that you do not understand him.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Letter

John A. Carlyle : 'Animal Magnetism'

'I have read your Anim. Magnetism, and think it among the best in the Number; worthy indeed of a far better place. I durst bet, the Blacks have not paid you yet: they are among the worst payers in existence.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

John A. Carlyle : On Medical Quackery and Mr St John Long'

'On Monday morning Grahame came down to breakfast, read your St John Long;, and insisted on my riding up with him to Grange: we went by Waterbeck and Torbeckhill, over the wet moor; had a meek, gently pleasant afternoon; I returned about eight o'clock, and found — O wonder and terror — an Express from Dumfries with tidings that the Jeffreys had notified that they would all be at Craigenputtoch that night!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Graham      Print: Serial / periodical

John A. Carlyle : Review of Sir Walter Scott's 'Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, II'

'[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

John A. Carlyle : 'Some passages from the Diary of the late Mr St John Long'

'[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

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