Record Number: 5124
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
This is emphatic enough.- I need not speak of Dr Chalmers' boisterous treatise upon the causes & cure of pauperism in the last Edinr review. His reasoning (so they call it) is disjointed and absurd - & his language a barbarous jargon - agre[e]able neither to Gods nor men.
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Feb 1818 and 25 May 1818
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Kirkcaldy (probably)
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Title unknown
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsPublished in Edinburgh - Feb 1818 edition
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:5124
Source:Thomas Carlyle
Editor:C R Sanders
Title:The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
Place of Publication:Durham, South Carolina
Date of Publication:1970
Vol:1
Page:130
Additional Comments:
Taken from letter from Carlyle to Robert Mitchell, dated 25th May 1818, written at Kirkcaldy. Pages 126 - 130 in this edition.
Citation:
Thomas Carlyle, C R Sanders (ed.), The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Durham, South Carolina, 1970), 1, p. 130, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=5124, accessed: 17 August 2024
Additional Comments:
Estimated dates of reading experienced based on editor's note that this article was in the February edition, and the date on which the letter was written.