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John Gillies : History of Ancient Greece, its colonies and conquests; from the earliest accounts, till the division of the Macedonian Empire in the East, including the history of literature, philosophy, and the fine arts

'Sismondi - Greek - Petrarch - S. reads Gillies Greece & A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

John Gillies : The History of Ancient Greece

Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 29-30 October 1793: 'I have laid down Gillies to write to you the third letter in one fortnight. thank yourself for the intrusion — had my casette arrived I should have been otherwise employed, so to your negligence my industry must be attributed...'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

John Gillies : The History of Ancient Greece

Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 30 October -7 November 1793: 'In this interval however my baggage has arrived & no poor devil at the foot of the gallows was more overjoyd at a reprieve than I was at the recovery. I have begun to transcribe Joan of Arc — read Enfield History of Philosophy, Gillies History of Greece V.2nd & begun Adam Smith since my return so you see Bristol does not make me idle. I may not form a taste here but I can increase a stock of useful knowledge and you know the prettiest nosegays are formed of various flowers.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

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