Record Number: 27405
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Sir Alexander Burnes to John Murray, 'On the Nile,' 30 March 1835: 'The Quarterly is lying before me [...] I have been reperusing the very article which treats of Mahommed Ali in that able essay regarding the encroachment of Russia. The Journal from which the quotations are made regarding the state and government of Egypt prove the writer to have been an accurate and an acute observer, but I do think that he has been too severe on the Pasha. To be sure he [Pasha] is a wholesale merchant and a wholesale oppressor, but compare him with his predecessors in this land of bondsmen, and then judge [comments further].'
Century:1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Mar 1835 and 30 Mar 1835
Country:Egypt
Timen/a
Place:city: Cairo
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:n/a
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:n/a
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Egypt
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:'England, France, Russia, and Turkey'
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Politics
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsIn The Quarterly Review, published by John Murray
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:27405
Source:Samuel Smiles
Editor:n/a
Title:A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1891
Vol:2
Page:394
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Samuel Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, (London, 1891), 2, p. 394, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=27405, accessed: 03 May 2024
Additional Comments:
Author and title of text identified by source author.
