'Dr Young once told me, that Dr Hartley's Two Volumes on Man were the Most Original of any thing he had seen published of many years. He praised them; but owned, that one of them was abstruse'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Dr (Edward?) Young Print: Book
'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro', tho' without Hopes of understanding the abstruser Parts'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Richardson Print: Book
'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro', tho' without Hopes of understanding the abstruser Parts.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Bradshaigh Print: Book
Harriet Martineau on philosophical studies in early adulthood: 'The edition of Hartley that I used was Dr. Priestley's [...] That book I studied with a fervour and perseverance which made it perhaps the most important book in the world to me, except the bible'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Book
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Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson from Forest House, Leyton, Essex, 4 October 1830:
'I am living here in a very pleasant place, an old country mansion, in the depths of the Forest [...] I have been studious too, partly after my fashion, and partly after my father [historian Henry Hallam]'s; i.e. I read six books of Herodotus with him, and I take occasional plunges into David Hartley, and Buhle's Philosophie Moderne for my own gratification.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Hallam Print: Book
'The study of Metaphysics and Mental Philosophy in general had always been one of the
favourite pursuits of George Grote. In the winter of 1829, a small group of students in this
branch of knowledge resumed the habit begun two years previous, of meeting at George
Grote's house on two mornings of the week, at half past eight A.M.
'They read Mr. Mill's last work, "Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind," Hartley on
Man, Dutrieux's Logic, Whately's works, &c., discussing as they proceeded.. Mr. John Stuart
Mill, Mr. Charles Buller, Mr. Eyton Tooke [...] Mr. John Arthur Roebuck, Mr. G. J. Graham, Mr.
Grant, and Mr. W. G. Prescott formed part of this class. Mr. George Grote was always present
at their meetings, which lasted an hour, or an hour and a half, as time served.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote, J. S. Mill, Eyton Tooke, Charles Buller, J. A. Roebuck, G. J. Johnson and others Print: Book
Edward Young to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1749:
'When I was in town, I ask'd you if you had read Dr Hartley's book. You told me you had not [...] I have since read it a second time, and with great satisfaction. It is certainly a work of distinction [...] It is calculated for men of sense [...] there is no man who seriously considers himself as immortal, but will find his pleasure, if not his profit, in it.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Young Print: Book
