Imaginary dialogues
Creator
Date Created
1764
Identifier
Special Collections De Beer Eb/1764/H
Type
Publisher
Dublin : Printed for Peter Wilson
Description
These two imaginary dialogues raise serious questions about the value of the grand tour. Locke is the more sceptical speaker, and ultimately the more forceful. In refuting the traditional argument that travel exposed one to the various guises of Human Nature, Locke here advocates travel beyond Europe, to ‘catch Her undressed, nay quite naked in North-America, and at the Cape of Good Hope'. Perhaps he should have carried The Gentleman's Pocket Companion with him.
Source
Dialogues on the uses of foreign travel : considered as a part of an English gentleman's education : between Lord Shaftesbury and Mr. Locke / by the editor of Moral and political dialogues
Is Part Of
Bound with: Letters on chivalry and romance / by Mr. Hurd. 1762.
Files
Collection
Citation
Hurd, Richard, 1720-1808, “Imaginary dialogues,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed November 7, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/7569.