'C[oleridge] was reading Burnet in 1795 ... '
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'On Tuesday the 10th. I began reading Burret's "Theory of the Earth", w'ch I found in my library, in w'ch I soon became so interested that I devoted the whole of every evening to it, 'till I had finish'd it.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book
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Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'Began Burnet's "Theory of the Earth". Nothing can exceed the dexterity, or liveliness, or picturesque force, of his reasoning...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as Astronomical Speculation: unless indeed the Study of the Ancient prophecies and modern Calculations of this World's final Dissolution: when we read Burnet on the Conflagration, or Whiston on the expected Comet, how little seem to Common Objects of our Care!'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Hester Lynch Thrale Print: Book
'The late Mrs Laidlaw of Willenslee took some notice of me, and frequently gave me books to read while tending the ewes; these were chiefly theological. The only one, that I remember any thing of, is "Bishop Burnet's Theory of the Conflagration of the Earth". Happy it was for me that I did not understand it! for the little of it that I did understand had nearly overturned my brain altogether. All the day I was pondering on the grand millennium, and the reign of the saints; and all the night dreaming of new heavens and a new earth - the stars in horror, and the world in flames! Mrs Laidlaw also gave me sometimes the newspapers, which I pored on with great earnestness - beginning at the date, and reading straight on, through advertisements of houses and lands, balm of Gilead, and every thing; and, after all, was often no wiser than when I began'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg Print: Book
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'When we meet I will shew you a most elegant piece of latin on the eternity of future punishment extracted from Thomas Burnett — Author of The Theory of Earth a book which equals Milton in sublimity, & which for ingenuity never perhaps was equalled.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Manuscript: Sheet
Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'When we meet I will shew you a most elegant piece of latin on the eternity of future punishment extracted from Thomas Burnett — Author of The Theory of Earth a book which equals Milton in sublimity, & which for ingenuity never perhaps was equalled.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey Print: Book
