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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'It is very likely that I may send you some Mathematical thing or other, seeing I have got Bossut's history of mathematics, at this time, where perhaps there may be somet...Thomas Carlyle Charles BossutEssai sur l'histoire generale des mathematiquesPrint: Book
1800-1849'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history [of] mathematics", Woods "optics", Cunn's "Euclid" a...Thomas Carlyle Charles BossutEssai sur l'histoire generale ds mathematiquesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s eight chaotic volumes are before me. To say nothing o...Thomas Carlyle Francis BaconEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849But too much of one thing - as it is in the adage. Therefore I reserve the account of Hume's essays till another opportunity. At any rate the Second volume is not finis...Thomas Carlyle David HumeEssays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 2 volsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am highly indebted to you for Hume. I like his essays better than any thing I have read these many days. He has prejudices, he does maintain errors - but he defends hi...Thomas Carlyle David HumeEssays Moral, Political and LiteraryPrint: Book
1800-1849'The best book I have read, since I wrote you, is Hume's "Essays, political and literary". It is indeed a most ingenious production - characterised by acuteness and origi...Thomas Carlyle David HumeEssays Moral, Political and LiteraryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the principles of morality". The first is a sensible sort of bo...Thomas Carlyle Henry Home, Lord KamesEssays on the Principles of Morality and Natural R...Print: Book
1800-1849'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It occurred to me, much about the same time, that it w...Thomas Carlyle Benjamin Thomson Count RumfordEssays, Political, Economical and PhilosophicalPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Dr [Brewster] stopped to tell me that he had got a paper on Chemistry written (in French) by Berzelius, professor of that science in Stockholm - which was to be publ...Thomas Carlyle Baron Jacob BerzeliusExamination of some compounds which depend upon ve...Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'With respect to my occupations at this period; they are not of the most important nature. Berzelius' paper is printed - I was this day correcting the proof-sheet-. The...Thomas Carlyle Baron Jacob BerzeliusExamination of some compounds which depend upon ve...Print: Proof-sheet
1800-1849'Did you get Meister; did they get them at Annan? It is slowly and sparingly coming forth here: I see it in the windows of the principal booksellers - there was a kind o...Thomas Carlyle Examiner (Newspaper Chat section)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have done little since I wrote last but revised Leslie's conics, and read a part of Laplace's 'exposition du systeme du monde' not the mecanique celeste for I alas, am...Thomas Carlyle Simon-Pierre LaplaceExposition du systeme du mondePrint: Book
1800-1849'I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned aside into Leslie's conics - 'Thomas Carlyle Simon-Pierre LaplaceExposition du systeme du mondePrint: Book
1800-1849'The Farbenlehre [The Theory (or Science) of Colour], which you are so good as to offer me, I have never seen, and shall thankfully accept, and study, it.'Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFarbenlehrePrint: Book
1800-1849'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of literature have scarcely been wider... With respect to ...Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1800-1849'I spent the day in reading part of Irving's sermons, which I have not finished. On the whole he should not have published it - till after a considerable time. There is...Thomas Carlyle Edward IrvingFor The Oracles Of God, Four OrationsPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be...Thomas Carlyle Lady Sidney Owenson MorganFrancePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have translated a portion of Schiller's History of the thirty years war (it is all about Gustavus and the fellow-soldados of Dugald Dalgetty your dearly-beloved friend...Thomas Carlyle Friedrich SchillerGeschichte des dreissigj?hrigen KriegsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I saw Scott's "Waterloo" and "Guy Mannering" when I was in Edinr[.] The former has been so dreadfully abused already - that I have nothing to add to the Newspaper puns, ...Thomas Carlyle Walter ScottGuy Mannering, or The AstrologerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and ...Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich RichterHerbst-blumine oder gesammelte Wekchen aus Zeitsch...Print: Book


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