Henry Crabb Robinson

Henry Crabb Robinson Society of Antiquaries of London FSA (13 May 1775 – 5 February 1867) was an English writer, lawyer, scholar, journalist, and war correspondent for The Times in the Peninsular War. He was one of the founding members of University College London and of the Athenaeum Club, London Athenaeum Club. Robinson was famous during his lifetime for his literary friendships and for holding social breakfasts (similar to those of Samuel Rogers) and gained posthumous fame as a diarist. In 1829 Robinson was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Quotes In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresistible tendency to religion; it is founded in our wants and passions, in the extent of our faculties, in the quality of mind itself. Mark Akenside Akenside's description of the untired soul darting from world to world, is a noble image of the restless longing of the mind after God and immortality. The stronger his sensibility, the more exalted his imagination, the more pious will every man be. And in this inherent and essential quality of our minds can we alone account for the various absurd and demonstrably false dogmas believed so honestly and zealously by some. Men run headlong into superstition in the same way as young boys and girls run into matrimony. Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, selected and edited by Thomas Sadler, Volume 1 2nd Chapter VI. 1802. Man's religious nature 1869 https://books.google.com/books?id=EY4-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA121 121 (509 pages) Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old Christ's Hospital masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that he hoped Coleridge had forgiven all injuries. Coleridge replied that he certainly had; he hoped his soul was in heaven, and that when he went there he was borne by a host of cherubs, all face and wing, and without anything to excite his whipping propensities! Chapter I. 1816. November 2nd. Coleridge's Wit Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, selected & edited by Thomas Sadler, Vol. 2 Books on Demand 2022 9783375046415 https://books.google.com/books?id=9lNzEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA36 36 (540 pages; 1st edition 1869) Dined at Gooden’s, where I met among others John Lindley Dr. Lindley, the Secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society Horticultural Society. He surprised me by saying that he knew Goethe only as a botanist, in which character he thought most highly of him, he being the author of the New System of Botany; and that this is now the opinion of the most eminent botanists both in France and England. I rejoice at this unexpected intelligence. Diary, reminiscences, and correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, selected and edited by T. Sadler, Volume 3 Chapter II. 1834. April 4th 2nd Macmillan & Company https://books.google.com/books?id=ldsnMQbTZosC&pg=PA41 41 Qiuotes about Henry Crabb Robinson Lamb was the first English writer of eminence whom Crabb Robinson tried to convince of the excellence of Goethe. Frederick Norman, Henry Crabb Robinson and Goethe, Part I New Series—Volume VI January 1930 London Publications of the English Goethe Society https://books.google.com/books?id=6UQMAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA66 66 (See also Henry Crabb Robinson and Goethe, Part II (1931), New Series—Volume VIII.) External links Philipp Hunnekuhl, working with the Henry Crabb Robinson archive September 7, 2020 Liverpool University Press blog https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2020/09/07/the-formal-and-the-informal-the-redacted-and-the-omitted-working-with-the-henry-crabb-robinson-archive/} Category:1775 births Category:1867 deaths Category:Diarists Category:Journalists from England Category:Lawyers from England Category:Travel writers Category:War correspondents