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David Hartley

  

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David Hartley : Observations on Man

'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

  

David Hartley : [passages from] Observations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations.

'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

  

David Hartley : Observations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations.

'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

  

David Hartley : unknown

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

  

David Hartley : Observations on Man, His Frame, His Duty, and His Expectations

[Marginalia]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

David Hartley : 

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

  

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