Paroles de Philosophie Positive [Words of Positive Philosophy] (French) [?]
Title
Paroles de Philosophie Positive [Words of Positive Philosophy] (French) [?]
Text Read
Paroles de Philosophie Positive [Words of Positive Philosophy] (French) [?]
Author
Littré, Emile
Original Source
Paris: Delahays, 1859
Publication Date
1859
Date(s) of Reading
- 1869-07-25
- 1869-08-01
Evidence
1869-07-25: "25. Sunday. Read Plato's Republic, in various parts. After lunch, Miss N. Smith, Miss Blythe, Mr. Burton and Mr. Deutsch. In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte." Diary 1861-1877 137
1869-08-01: "Aug. 1. Since last Sunday I have had an uncomfortable week from mental and bodily disturbance. I have finished eleven Sonnets on "Brother and Sister", read Littre, Nisard; part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings. On Thursday: the evening was occupied with Gertrude and Charles, Monday evening with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty. On Tuesday afternoon we went to the British Museum to see a new bronze, and I was enchanted with some fragments of glass in the Slade Collection, with dyes of sunset in them. Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakspeare's sonnets. Poor Thornie has had a miserably unsatisfactory week, making no progress. After lunch came Miss N. Smith and Miss Blythe, Mr. Burton, Mr. and Mrs. Burne Jones and Mr. Sanderson." Diary 1861-1877 137
1869-08-01: "Aug. 1. Since last Sunday I have had an uncomfortable week from mental and bodily disturbance. I have finished eleven Sonnets on "Brother and Sister", read Littre, Nisard; part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings. On Thursday: the evening was occupied with Gertrude and Charles, Monday evening with looking through Dickson's Fallacies of the Faculty. On Tuesday afternoon we went to the British Museum to see a new bronze, and I was enchanted with some fragments of glass in the Slade Collection, with dyes of sunset in them. Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakspeare's sonnets. Poor Thornie has had a miserably unsatisfactory week, making no progress. After lunch came Miss N. Smith and Miss Blythe, Mr. Burton, Mr. and Mrs. Burne Jones and Mr. Sanderson." Diary 1861-1877 137
Citation
Littré, Emile, Paroles de Philosophie Positive [Words of Positive Philosophy] (French) [?], George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57249