'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals". I have also finished H. Spencer's last number of his Psychology'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Book
[Following notes on 'squabble' between SS. Jerome and Augustine]
'Extracted from ch. iv of Lecky's "Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne", interesting, ill-indexed, strong on the Egyptian anchorites.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Print: Book
From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during these months, also Tom Hughes' Alfred the Great, Pressense's Life of Christ, Martineau's Endeavours After a Christian Life, and Lecky's European Morals.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Tennyson Print: Book
'Mrs Edminson then read an interesting paper on Lecky's Map of Life'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Edminson Print: Book
14 July 1878:
'Enid amused me with a book by Ouida, called Friendship, founded on the life of Mrs. Ross, Sir A. Gordon's daughter, very mischievous. Presently C[harles]. S[chreiber]. came out, and I read him the commencement of Lecky's History of the XVIIIth Century in England.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Charlotte Schreiber Print: Book
