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Condorcet : [unidentified posthumously-published work]

John Playfair to Mary Berry, 8 May 1796: 'I have lately seen a posthumous work of Condorcet's; it is a very curious book, full of false views and unsound principles, mingled with truth and philosophy in a manner extremely ingenious and artful.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Playfair      Print: Book

Condorcet : [book including discussion on population]

Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had just begun at Brandsby, and which I like better and better the farther I go. I have consulted, too, one of his authorities for many things in the age of Henry the Third, Montaigne's Essays, a very curious and an [italics]astonishing[end italics] book, considering the times in which it was written, and which one never consults without entertainment. I have re-read, too, Condorcet's book, and compared his ideas and arguments on the subject of population with those of the Essay [by Malthus] we have been reading, and certainly the Essay has not only the best of the argument [...] but is absolute [italics]conviction[end italics]on the subject of the different ratios in which population, and the means of subsisting that population, increase'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry      Print: Book

[Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de] Condorcet : The Human Understanding

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] a good deal of Condorcet on "The Human Understanding" ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone      Print: Book

Condorcet : Vie de Voltaire [...] suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme

'Sunday March 26th [...] Begin Condorcet's Life of Voltaire [goes on to note anecdote from this]'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Condorcet : Vie de Voltaire [...] suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme

'Wednesday March 29th [...] Read Condorcet's Life of Voltaire. [...] 'Wednesday April 12th. [...] Finish the Life of Voltaire by Condorcet.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet : Vie de voltaire par le Marquis de Condorcet; suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme

'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aenied aloud - read Condorcet's life of Voltaire - S. reads Locke.'

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

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet : Vie de voltaire par le Marquis de Condorcet; suivie des memoires de Voltaire, ecrits par lui-meme

'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th Book & all we mean to read of 5th book of Virgil - Visit at Casa Silva. S. reads Locke'

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

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