√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 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 ... Thomas Carlyle Dr Chalmers Title unknown Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '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 Goethe Faust Print : Book1800-1849 '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. Rousseau's "Contr... Thomas Carlyle Jean-Jacques Rousseau Du Contrat Social Print : Book1800-1849 They that cultivate literary small-talk have been greatly attracted for some / time by the late number of Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) Magazine. It contains many slan... Thomas Carlyle Blackwoods Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'After an arduous str[uggle] with sundry historians of grea[t and] small renown I sit down to answer the much-valued epistle of my friend. Doubtless you are disposed to... Thomas Carlyle various [histories] Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 It is long since I told you that I had begun Wallace, and that foreign studies had cast him into the shade. The same causes still obstruct my progress You will perhaps ... Thomas Carlyle William Wallace 'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia Britannica Print : Book1800-1849 I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. Thomas Carlyle David Hume History of England Print : Book1800-1849 I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called... Thomas Carlyle Tobias Smollett History of England Print : Book1800-1849 I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called... Thomas Carlyle Edward Gibbon Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire Print : Book1800-1849 But 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 Hume Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 2 vols Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Laplace Exposition du systeme du monde Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Laplace Exposition du systeme du monde Print : Book1800-1849 '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 - & went thro' it, in search ... Thomas Carlyle Sir John Leslie Elements of Geometry, Geometrical Analysis, and Pl... Print : Book1800-1849 'I likewise turned into Charles Bossut's Mecanique - to study his demonstration of pendulums, and his doctrine of forces. The text is often tediously explanatory - & in ... Thomas Carlyle Charles Bossut Mecanique Print : Book1800-1849 'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was foolish, you may think, to exchange the truths of philos... Thomas Carlyle Thomas Moore Lalla Rookh Print : Book1800-1849 'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was foolish, you may think, to exchange the truths of philos... Thomas Carlyle George Gordon Lord Byron Childe Harold (Canto IV) Print : Book1800-1849 '27th June - The last book worth mentioning, which I perused was Stewart's preliminary dissertation - for the second time. The longer I study the works of this philosoph... Thomas Carlyle Dugald Stewart Philosophy of the Human Mind Print : Book1800-1849 'You will readily believe that I have not read much since I wrote to you. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo di'Medici - a work concerning which I shall only observe, in the words... Thomas Carlyle William Roscoe Life of Lorenzo Di Medici, 2 vols Print : Book1800-1849 'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than pow... Thomas Carlyle Horace Benedict Saussure Voyage dans les Alpes Print : Book1800-1849 'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than pow... Thomas Carlyle Jean Baptiste Biot Traite de Physique Print : Book1800-1849 'There is also Madame de Stael on the French revolution - first volume only finished - remarks (if any) in the next letter.' Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein 'Considerations on the French Revolution' Print : Book1800-1849 'With regard to reading, you would think I have enough of time upon my hands at present: yet the truth is, I have often read more, almost never studied less!... There is ... Thomas Carlyle Robert Jameson Unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much conscience to dilate upon this subject. Besides, it is no... Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein Considerations Sur La Revolution Francaise Print : Book1800-1849 'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much conscience to dilate upon this subject... On the same auth... Thomas Carlyle Horace Benedict Saussure Voyages dans les Alpes Print : Book1800-1849 'I read Bailly's memoires d'un temoin de la revolution, with little comfort. The book is not ill-written: but it grieved me to see the august historian of astronomy, the... Thomas Carlyle Jean Sylvain Bailly Memoires D'un Temoin De La Revolution Print : Book1800-1849 'The other afternoon, as I was lying dozing in a brown study after dinner, a lord's lackey knocked at the door and delivered me a little blue parcel, requiring for it a n... Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von Goethe private letter Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 '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 Berzelius Examination of some compounds which depend upon ve... Manuscript : Sheet1800-1849 '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 Berzelius Examination of some compounds which depend upon ve... Print : Proof-sheet1800-1849 'At present, I am reading a stupid play of Kotzebue's - but to-night I am to have the history of Frederick the Great from Irving. I will make an affu' struggle to read a... Thomas Carlyle August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue Unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I am rather afraid that I have not been quite regular in reading that best of books which you recommended to me. However last night I was reading upon my favourite Job;... Thomas Carlyle Book of Job Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 'You are not to think that I am fretful. I have long accustomed my mind to look upon the future with a sedate aspect; and at any rate, my hopes have never yet failed me.... Thomas Carlyle Jean le Rond D'Alembert Unknown Print : Unknown1800-1849 '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 Morgan France Print : Book1800-1849 'I have done, as usual, almost nothing since we parted- Some one asked me with a smile, of which I knew not the meaning, if I would read that book, putting into my hands ... Thomas Carlyle Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confessions Print : Book1800-1849 'You have to answer for the sin of keeping me almost two hours from "Planta's history of the Helvetic confederacy" - which is a small [/] sin it must be owned, the said P... Thomas Carlyle Joseph Planta History of the Helvetic Confederacy Print : Book1800-1849 'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jardine, who broke his engagement); and in looking over ... Thomas Carlyle Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Messiah Print : Book1800-1849 'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jardine, who broke his engagement); and in looking over ... Thomas Carlyle John Bristed America and her Resources Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Barthelemy Faujais de Saint-Frond Voyage en Angleterre, en Ecosse et aux Iles Hebrid... Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Morgan Roderick, the Last of the Goths Print : Book1800-1849 'I have read Millar on the English government &c-' Thomas Carlyle John Millar Historical View of the English Government, An Print : Book1800-1849 'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It were long to tell you fully my opinion of the work, w... Thomas Carlyle Abbe Raynal Philosophical and Political History of the Settlem... Print : Book1800-1849 'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It were long to tell you fully my opinion of the work, w... Thomas Carlyle Eliza Draper Inscription to Raynal's 'History of the E. and W. ... Print : Book1800-1849 'After an interval of 5 hours, spent in reading the Edinr Review and excecuting various commissions, I resume my lucubrations. the unhappy carrier is not come.' Thomas Carlyle Various Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Without reluctance, I push aside the massy quarto of Millar on the English government, to perform ther more pelasing duty of writing a few lines to you, by the conveyanc... Thomas Carlyle John Millar Historical View of the English Government, An Print : Book1800-1849 'I was truly sorry and at the same time tickled to observe the abrupt conclusion of your letter. The thunder of Jack's snoring is not unknown to me; but poor fellow! yo... Thomas Carlyle Alexander Carlyle Letter (date unknown) Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 'Having just concluded the first volume of Sismondi's history, and the other not being yet arrived from Edinr, I think I cannot better employ the hour of leisure, which n... Thomas Carlyle Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi unknown history Print : Book1850-1899 'I see no paper but an old Examiner - strong meat - an Olla Podrida, high-flavoured but coarse and na[u]seous to a sentimentalist.' Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt The Examiner Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'A review for Brewster's philosophical journal of a German book on Magnetism, I must also write or say I cannot - the former alternative is better: and then (as our man o... Thomas Carlyle Professor Hansteen Inquiries Concerning the Magnetism of the Earth Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "Edinr reviews" - and if you honour the maxim, audi al... Thomas Carlyle Jeffrey Article IX Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "Edinr reviews" - and if you honour the maxim, audi al... Thomas Carlyle Jeffrey Article X Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "Edinr reviews" - and if you honour the maxim, audi al... Thomas Carlyle Robert Southey Article ix Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "Edinr reviews" - and if you honour the maxim, audi al... Thomas Carlyle Robert Southey Article iv Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Nothing material has occurred to me since I returned from Mainhill. I wrote the first half of "Hunsteen" and translated, from the German, the first half of "Mohs";' Thomas Carlyle Friedrich Mohs Crystalography Print : Book1800-1849 'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariosto and "Six weeks at Longs." The latter end of this d... Thomas Carlyle Ludovico Ariosto Orlando Furioso Unknown 1800-1849 'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariosto and "Six weeks at Longs." The latter end of this d... Thomas Carlyle Eaton Stannard Barrett Six Weeks at Long's Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Schiller Geschichte des dreissigj?hrigen Kriegs Print : Book1800-1849 'Last night, I was listening to music and the voice of song amid dandy clerks and sparkling females - laughing at times even to soreness at the marvellous Dr John Scott (... Thomas Carlyle John Scott 'Blackwood's Magazine' [ARTICLE TITLE] in 'The Lon... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'There is a project on foot about translating one D'Aubuisson [a] Frenchman's geology - a large book, for the first edition I am to have 60 guineas - the same sum for eve... Thomas Carlyle Jean Aubuisson Traite de geognoise Print : Book1800-1849 'The colossal "Wallenstein" and Thekla the angelical, and Max her impetuous lofty-minded lover are all gone to rest; I have closed Schiller for a night; and what can I do... Thomas Carlyle Friedrich Schiller Wallenstein Print : Book1800-1849 'Waugh (the Review-man) sent me a book the other day, with a wish and an assurance that I "would write a very elegant and spirited critique on it" - which I am not so cer... Thomas Carlyle Joanna Baillie Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters Print : Book1800-1849 'Those latter volumes of the Allemagne will perplex you, I fear. The third in particular is very mysterious; now and then quite absurd. Do not mind it much.' Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein De l'Allemagne Print : Book1800-1849 'Tell David Fergusson that I am charmed with his manuscript [a handwritten copy of Carlyle's "Life of Pascal"]; it is the prettiest [that] ever was written for the Encycl... Thomas Carlyle Thomas Carlyle Life of Pascal Manuscript : Sheet, Handwritten copy of Carlyle's own text1800-1849 'I had also to go this morning and read some old black-letter poems in the Advocates' Library: and the stomach, like a true British subject, is rebelling not a little aga... Thomas Carlyle unknown ["black-letter poems"] Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Bossut Essai sur l'histoire generale des mathematiques Print : Book1800-1849 [Carlyle transcribes a poem by John Leyden he has read in Hogg's 'Spy' and sends it to Robert Mitchell] 'Well, if I am not much deceived you will thank me, for transcribi... Thomas Carlyle John Leyden 'Shout, Britons, for the Battle of Asaye' Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Have you read Shakespear? If you have not, then I desire you, read it directly, and tell me what you think of him -which is his masterpiece. He is always excellent' Thomas Carlyle William Shakespeare [Works] Print : Serial / periodical, Unknown1800-1849 'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conclusion which the Editor had foisted in,- in addition... Thomas Carlyle Thomas Murray [critique of William Nicholson's works in 'The Cou... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conclusion which the Editor had foisted in,- in addition... Thomas Carlyle W. Scott Irving [poem celebrating peace at end of Napoleonic wars] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conclusion which the Editor had foisted in,- in addition... Thomas Carlyle W. Scott Irving [essays on Burns and monuments] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I was greatly diverted by your specimen of Mr. Maclaurin's prose-run-mad. He seems to have imbibed, in the full sense of the word, the melody of his native mountains; - ... Thomas Carlyle Maclaurin [writings quoted in a letter from Thomas Murray to... Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 'Once, for instance, I recollect that to fill up one of those aweful hiatus in conversation that occur at times in spite of all one's efforts to the contrary - and to ent... Thomas Carlyle Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy Print : Book1800-1849 'A-propos of Authors - This evening at tea, Miss Ramsay (our governess) inquired at me if I had read that affecting representation of the Calamities of Literary men, in t... Thomas Carlyle Thomas Murray [article entitled 'An Affecting Occurrence'] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I have seen the last number of the Edinr review at Mount-annan. I regret, with you, that Jeffrey should bestow so much of his time on Politics; and I rejoice in the pros... Thomas Carlyle Francis Jeffrey Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe... Thomas Carlyle Sophie Cottin Elisabeth, ou les exiles de Siberie Print : Book1800-1849 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe... Thomas Carlyle James Beattie The Minstrel Print : Unknown1800-1849 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe... Thomas Carlyle Christoph Wieland Oberon. Ein Gedicht in 14 Gesangen Print : Unknown1800-1849 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe... Thomas Carlyle John Hoole Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered Print : Unknown1800-1849 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe... Thomas Carlyle Richard Savage [Poems] Print : Unknown1800-1849 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe... Thomas Carlyle Francois Fenelon Abrege des vies des anciens philosophes Print : Book1800-1849 'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe... Thomas Carlyle James Beresford Miseries of Human Life Print : Book1800-1849 'I did not tell you that when I left Edinr for Dumfries, I put your paper in my pocket - and whilst my right worthy compagnons de voyage (for I came in the Mail from Moff... Thomas Carlyle Robert Mitchell [a mathematical paper] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B... Thomas Carlyle George Gordon Lord Byron [Poems] Print : Book1800-1849 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B... Thomas Carlyle Walter Scott [Poems] Print : Book1800-1849 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B... Thomas Carlyle Walter Scott Waverley Print : Book1800-1849 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B... Thomas Carlyle Richard Glover Leonidas, A Poem Print : Book1800-1849 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B... Thomas Carlyle William Wilkie The Epigoniad Print : Book1800-1849 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B... Thomas Carlyle Jane Porter The Scottish Chiefs, A Romance Print : Book1800-1849 '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these th... Thomas Carlyle Walter Scott Waverley Print : Book1800-1849 '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these th... Thomas Carlyle Leonhard Euler Elements of Algebra Print : Book1800-1849 '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these th... Thomas Carlyle Joseph Addison The Free-holder, I-LV Print : Book1800-1849 '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these th... Thomas Carlyle Georges Cuvier 'Discours preliminaire' to Recherches sur les osse... Print : Book1800-1849 '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these th... Thomas Carlyle Moliere [pseud.] [Comedies] Print : Book1800-1849 [Carlyle apologises for not having written sooner, saying he has been waiting until he has procured a copy of Stewart Lewis' poems which he now has] 'It is imperfect, but... Thomas Carlyle Stewart Lewis [Poems] Print : Book1800-1849 'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerable surprise - the bold avowall of his sentiments on ... Thomas Carlyle Sir John Leslie [or Playfair?] review of Laplace's Essai philosophique sur les pr... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerable surprise - the bold avowall of his sentiments on ... Thomas Carlyle Pierre Simon Laplace Essai philosophique sur les probabilites Print : Book1800-1849 [Carlyle tells how he was trying to write a learned exegesis and came to a dead halt] 'One cannot long be idle - you will not wonder that I took up the first book that ca... Thomas Carlyle [unknown] [unknown novel] Print : Book1800-1849 'Great and manifold are the books I have read since I saw you. You recommended "Thaddeus of Warsaw" long ago you may remember - and the work in my judgement fully deserve... Thomas Carlyle Jane Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw Print : Book1800-1849 'As an extraordinary instance of perseverance, I must mention my having read "Cicero de officiis". You must read it too Bob - You will get thro' it in a week - and cannot... Thomas Carlyle Cicero De Officiis Print : Book1800-1849 'As an extraordinary instance of perseverance, I must mention my having read "Cicero de officiis". You must read it too Bob - You will get thro' it in a week - and cannot... Thomas Carlyle Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield Letters to his Son Print : Book1800-1849 'But the most extraordinary production of any, I have seen these many days, is "La Pucelle d'Orleans" an Epic by Voltaire. This Mock-Heroic illustrates several things -Fi... Thomas Carlyle Voltaire [pseud.] La Pucelle d'Orleans Print : Book1800-1849 'But the book I am most pleased with is "Cicero de Finibus" - not that there is much new discussion in it, but his manner is so easy and elegant; and, besides, there is s... Thomas Carlyle Cicero De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum Print : Book1800-1849 'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in their censures of "the metaphysical heresies" of th... Thomas Carlyle Dugald Stewart Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind Print : Book1800-1849 'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in their censures of "the metaphysical heresies" of th... Thomas Carlyle William Rowe Lyall [review in the Quarterly Review of Dugald Stewart'... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '"Guy Mannering" is reviewed in the same number [ of the Quarterly Review]. Tho' we have still more reason to question their competency here - you will probably admit tha... Thomas Carlyle anon [review in the Quarterly Review of Scott's Guy Man... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I am glad you saw Lara; and am indebted for your account of it. I read the review of it in the Quarterly review?some time ago.' [there follow Carlyle's observations on M... Thomas Carlyle anon. [review in the Quarterly Review Byron's Lara] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '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 Hume Essays Moral, Political and Literary Print : Book1800-1849 'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri,... Thomas Carlyle [n/a] Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri,... Thomas Carlyle Robert Southey [essay in the Quarterly Review on Lewis and Clarke... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri,... Thomas Carlyle Mark Akenside Night Thoughts Print : Book1800-1849 'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri,... Thomas Carlyle Tobias Smollett Peregrine Pickle Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Hume Essays Moral, Political and Literary Print : Book1800-1849 'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: ... Thomas Carlyle Hugh Blair Lectures on Rhetoric Print : Book1800-1849 'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: ... Thomas Carlyle [unknown] [an Italian Grammar] Print : Book1800-1849 'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: ... Thomas Carlyle Francesco Soave Novelle Morali Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Dugald Stewart The Life and Writings of William Robertson Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Kames Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural R... Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Rumford Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical Print : Book1800-1849 '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 George Stewart Mackenzie Travels in the Island of Iceland during the summer... Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Friedrich von Humboldt Essai politique sur la royaume de nouvelle espagne Print : Book1800-1849 '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 George Berkeley Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowle... Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Dugald Stewart Philosophical Essays Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Thomas Simpson A Treatise of Fluxions Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Bossut Essai sur l'histoire generale ds mathematiques Print : Book1800-1849 '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 James Wood The Elements of Optics Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Isaac Newton Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Lucan Pharsalia Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Scott Guy Mannering, or The Astrologer Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Scott The Field of Waterloo, A Poem Print : Book1800-1849 'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to ... Thomas Carlyle Thomas Mortimer The British Plutarch Print : Book1800-1849 'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to ... Thomas Carlyle Joseph Addison The Spectator Print : Book, Serial / periodical1800-1849 'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to ... Thomas Carlyle Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son Print : Book1800-1849 'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a ... Thomas Carlyle Alexander Pope The Iliad / Odyssey of Homer Print : Book1800-1849 'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a ... Thomas Carlyle Homer The Iliad / Odyssey Print : Book1800-1849 'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a ... Thomas Carlyle Xenophon Anabasis Print : Book1800-1849 'Out of a considerable quantity of garbage which I have allowed myself, at different intervals, to devour, I have only to mention Crabbes Poems as worthy of being read. I... Thomas Carlyle George Crabe Poems Print : Book1800-1849 'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered... Thomas Carlyle Isaac Newton Philosophi? Naturalis Principia Mathematica Print : Book1800-1849 'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered... Thomas Carlyle James Wood The Elements of Optics Print : Book1800-1849 'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered... Thomas Carlyle Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre Abrege d'astronomie Print : Book1800-1849 'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered... Thomas Carlyle John Keill Introductio ad veram physicam Print : Book1800-1849 'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysic... Thomas Carlyle Thomas or William Belsham [either Elements of the Philosophy of Mind or Essa... Print : Book1800-1849 'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysic... Thomas Carlyle Dugald Stewart [Introductory essay to Encyclopaedia Britannica] Print : Book1800-1849 'My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I have read little since I saw you: and of that little, I... Thomas Carlyle John Playfair Dissertation Second: Exhibiting a general View of ... Print : Book1800-1849 'My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I have read little since I saw you: and of that little, I... Thomas Carlyle Dugald Stewart Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind Print : Book1800-1849 'You have no doubt seen the "Tales of my Landlord". Certainly "Waverl[e]y" and "Mannering" and "the Black Dwarf" were never written by the same person. If I mistake not -... Thomas Carlyle Walter Scott Tales of My Landlord Print : Book1800-1849 'You have no doubt seen the "Tales of my Landlord". Certainly "Waverl[e]y" and "Mannering" and "the Black Dwarf" were never written by the same person. If I mistake not -... Thomas Carlyle Thomas M'Crie Vindication of the Covenanters Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspaper the "Scotsman" has reached the third number. I hav... Thomas Carlyle [n/a] The Scotsman Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspaper the "Scotsman" has reached the third number. I hav... Thomas Carlyle [unknown] The Sale Room Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 [Having heard some lectures on Spurzheim's ideas] 'I have since looked into the Dr's book, and if possible the case is worse. Certainly, it is not true, that, our intelle... Thomas Carlyle Johann Spurzheim [work on phrenology] Print : Book1800-1849 'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Quarterly" reviews. In the latter, among a great deal o... Thomas Carlyle [n/a] Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Quarterly" reviews. In the latter, among a great deal o... Thomas Carlyle [n/a] Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I was reading Pascal's "lettres provinciales". None can help admiring his wit & probity. He sustains excellently the character of [italics]naivet?[end italics]which he h... Thomas Carlyle Blaise Pascal Les Provinciales, ou les lettres Print : Book1800-1849 'Last week I perused von Buch's "travels in Norway & Lapland". Much of his attention is devoted to Mineralogy, of which I am very ignorant, and his movements are sometime... Thomas Carlyle Christian Leopold, Baron von Buch Reise durch Norwegen und Lappland Print : Book1800-1849 'I took Bail]ly's "histoire d'Astronomie", out of the College library, last time I was over the firth. [He seems] to write with great eloquence & perspicuity; but I have ... Thomas Carlyle Jean Sylvain Bailly Histoire de l'astronomie moderne Print : Book1800-1849 'We get a "Dumfries Courier" here amongst us. Our third Number reached us a few days ago. It seems M'Darmaid [M'Diarmid] is become sole Editor; - it is not the opinion of... Thomas Carlyle [n/a] Dumfries Courier Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'Three weeks ago, I finished M. Bailly's "histoire de l'Astronomie Modern[e.]" His acquaintance with the science seems to have been more extensive than profound; his stil... Thomas Carlyle Jean Sylvain Bailly Histoire de l'astronomie moderne Print : Book1800-1849 'But Dr Chalmers, it would seem, is fearful lest these speculations [on the nature of the universe] lead us away from Christianity and has written a volume of discourses ... Thomas Carlyle Thomas Chalmers A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation... Print : Book1800-1849 'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes & cure of mendicity. After expatiating at considerabl... Thomas Carlyle Thomas Chalmers [article on paperism in Edinburgh Review] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes & cure of mendicity. After expatiating at considerabl... Thomas Carlyle Robert Southey [article in Quarterly Review] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes & cure of mendicity. After expatiating at considerabl... Thomas Carlyle [n/a] The Scotsman Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very dili... Thomas Carlyle William Wallace [article on Fluxions in Encyclopaedia Britannica] Print : Book1800-1849 'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very dili... Thomas Carlyle [n/a] Literary and Statistical Magazine for Scotland Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very dili... Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de Stael De l'Allemagne Print : Book1800-1849 I told you I had seen the "Quarterly Review". You would notice its contents in the newspaper. It is a long time since I ceased to be one of its admirers. The writers pos[... Thomas Carlyle [n/a] Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'The other night I sat up till four o'clock, reading Matthew Lewis's "Monk". It is the most stupid & villainous novel that I have read for a great while. Considerable por... Thomas Carlyle Matthew Lewis The Monk Print : Book1800-1849 'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number of which has appeared. B. advertises a new one with a... Thomas Carlyle [n/a] Edinburgh Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number of which has appeared. B. advertises a new one with a... Thomas Carlyle [n/a] Edinburgh Monthly Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number of which has appeared. B. advertises a new one with a... Thomas Carlyle [n/a] Edinburgh observer or Town and Country Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '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 David Hume The History of England during the reigns of James ... Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Tobias Smollett History of England Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Print : Book1800-1849 '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 Bacon Essays Print : Book1800-1849 'Some time ago, I bought me a copy of La Rochefoucault. It has been said that the basis of his system is the supposition of selflove being the motive of all our actions. ... Thomas Carlyle Francois VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales Print : Book1800-1849 'Some time since, all the world was astonished at the 2nd number of "Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) magazine" - The greater part of it is full of gall: but the most veno... Thomas Carlyle [n/a] Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man... Thomas Carlyle William Coxe Travels in Switzerland Print : Book1800-1849 'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man... Thomas Carlyle William Coxe Travels in Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark Print : Book1800-1849 'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man... Thomas Carlyle David Hume The History of England During the Reigns of James ... Print : Book1800-1849 'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man... Thomas Carlyle Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Print : Book1800-1849 'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-room, a little place all fitted up like a lady's wor... Thomas Carlyle Unknown Unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Mathematics, I have absolutely never thought on - excepting some trifles from the Ladies' and Gentleman's diary - which I shall have conscience enough not to trouble you ... Thomas Carlyle Reuben BURROW Unknown from 'Ladies' and Gentleman's Diary' Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 But the book I am most pleased with is 'cicero de Finibus' - not that there is much new discussion in it, but his manner is so easy and elegant; and, besides, there is su... Thomas Carlyle Cicero De Finibus Print : Book1800-1849 "Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri... Thomas Carlyle William Hazlitt 'Standard Novels' Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 "Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri... Thomas Carlyle Lewis & Clarke Travels up the Missouri Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'It occurred to me; much about the same time that it would be proper to study Stewart's Essays, Berkel[e]y's principes of knowledge, Rumfords Essays, Newton ['s] Institut... Thomas Carlyle Sir Isaac Newton Institutes Print : Book1800-1849 'I have looked into the Belfast Town and Country Almanack - and consulted several cunning men upon the subject - and from all quartrs, I collect - that the moon will be f... Thomas Carlyle anon Belfast Town & County Almanack Print : Unknown1800-1849 'With regard to the division of the circle into 360 parts,- I think it cannot be done by elementary Geometry - at least if M. Gauss is right - who (Leslie tells us) has d... Thomas Carlyle Sir John Leslie Elements of Geometry Print : Book1800-1849 'I received about a month ago the Revd Willm Thomson of Ochiltree's new translation of the Testament. Of course I am no judge of his 'new renderings'; but the stile both... Thomas Carlyle William Thomson The New Testament. Translated from the Greek, 3 vo... Print : Book1800-1849 'Soon after my arrival here, I fell to Wallace's fluxions, with might and main. I would study, I thought, with great vehemence, every night - and the two hours at noon, ... Thomas Carlyle William Wallace 'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia Britannica Print : Book1800-1849 'I perused your theorems with some attention. They are well worthy of a place in the Courier - though not for the purpose you mention. Mr Johnston, if I mistake not, is ... Thomas Carlyle Robert Mitchell 'theorems' Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'I have been reading little [since I last wrote to you] except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c... Thomas Carlyle Tobias Smollett History of England [probably] Print : Book1800-1849 'The German book is getting praise rather than censure: I was about sending Alick a copy of the last Examiner Newspaper, where it was rather sensibly criticised. The man... Thomas Carlyle Signed as 'Q' Review of 'German Romance' by Thomas Carlyle Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'. Thomas Carlyle John Milton Prose works Print : Book1800-1849 'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'. Thomas Carlyle George Fox Historical Account of the Life, Travels,...of Geor... Print : Book1800-1849 'I have read the 'bright city' and rejoiced to find your criticism of it so agreeable to my own. Milman is certainly a poet, but he takes a flight higher than he can sus... Thomas Carlyle Henry Hart Milman Samor, the Lord of the Bright City Print : Book1800-1849 'Did [Benjamin Bell] write these verses? If so, he seems young at the art like us, but not without powers of doing better; dactyls are always difficult to manage, and hi... Thomas Carlyle Charles Hughes Terot Poems Manuscript : Sheet, Poems included in letter from Jane Baillie Welsh to TC1800-1849 'Byron's Magazine or rather Hunt's 'The Liberal' is arrived in town; but they will not sell it - it is so full of Atheism and Radicalism and other noxious isms. I had a ... Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt (EDITOR) The Liberal Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Have you seen Dr Ures notice of Leslie's Meteorology, in Brande's Journal? Some one shewed it to me and it seemed a very unpalatable morsel: I know not whether you will... Thomas Carlyle Andrew Ure Review of 'Description of Instruments, Designed fo... Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Letter1800-1849 'At present the honest people of "the letters" are much shocked at the appearance of Byron's and Hunt's Magazine "The Liberal", which hardly one of the Bibliopolists will... Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt (EDITOR) The Liberal Print : Book, Serial / periodical, The LiberalManuscript : Letter1800-1849 'I have spent a stupid day reading the Abbe de Sade's Memoirs of Petrarch. What a feeble whipster was this Petrarch with all his talents! To go dangling about, for the ... Thomas Carlyle Jacques Fracois Paul Alphonse, Abbe de Sade Memoires pour la vie de Francois Petrarch Print : Book1800-1849 'It is already past twelve o'clock, and I am tired and sleepy; but I cannot go to rest without answering the kind little note which you sent me, and acknowledging these n... Thomas Carlyle Margaret A. Carlyle Letter Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841:
'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; and now this day I have been looking into your Pippa p... Thomas Carlyle Robert Browning Sordello Print : Book
