Record Number: 4064
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
?I have read two books lately wh. interested me. One for wh. you will not care is a history of English law down to the time of Edward I by F. W. Maitland?. The other book is A. J. Balfour?s Foundations of Belief, wh. are, I think about the very oddest foundations that any man ever tried to lay ? being chiefly reasons for believing nothing. I preached a kind of sermon about it to the Ethical Society here; taking his arguments & working out their proper result. It will, I believe, appear in the Fortnightly for June; but it is not worth taking the trouble to read.?
Century:1850-1899
Date:unknown
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Type of Experience(Reader):
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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:28 Nov 1832
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Literary critic, historian, journalist, biographer
Religion:Christian
Country of Origin:England
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Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Foundations of Belief
Genre:Other religious
Form of Text:Print: Book
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Source Information:
Record ID:4064
Source:Leslie Stephen
Editor:John Bicknell
Title:The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol 2 1882-1904
Place of Publication:Ohio State University Press
Date of Publication:1996
Vol:n/a
Page:440
Additional Comments:
Letter from Leslie Stephen to Charles Eliot Norton (19/4/1895).
Citation:
Leslie Stephen, John Bicknell (ed.), The Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen Vol 2 1882-1904, (Ohio State University Press, 1996), p. 440, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=4064, accessed: 22 November 2024
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