Record Number: 22581

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Doctor Beattie, author of the celebrated book on Truth, was much the Subject of Conversation, the whole company concurring in the Praise of so able and useful a Writer; Here is much ado about nothing cries Doctor Goldsmith why the Man has written but one Book, and I have writ several. So you have Doctor replies Mr Johnson but there go many Halfpence remember - to one Guinea'.

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1770 and 4 Apr 1774

Country:

n/a

Time

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Place:

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Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reading Group:

Dr Johnson, Mrs Thrale, Oliver Goldsmith and others

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Unknown

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Unknown/NA

Occupation:

n/a

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

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Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

James Beattie

Title:

Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth

Genre:

Philosophy

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

22581

Source:

Print

Author:

Hester Lynch Thrale

Editor:

Katharine C. Balderston

Title:

Thraliana

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1951

Vol:

I

Page:

82

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Hester Lynch Thrale, Katharine C. Balderston (ed.), Thraliana, (Oxford, 1951), I, p. 82, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=22581, accessed: 03 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None