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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849"I go on Merrily with my Greek & Latin; am very sorry that I did not begin to learn languages early in life as I find it very Easy; am now learning my Hebrew [ABC]. I rea...William Blake The New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'The commanding officer, a timid, fragile man, gave me (as his way was) a pocket Testament bound in green suède, with coloured pictures. It went with me always, mainly un...Edmund Blunden The New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for, but I'd look. This was my Detention Cell Library: <...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool The New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'As I was watching the columns of earth and smoke, there was suddenly a whirring sound and a piece of iron plonked into the mud at my feet, where it lay sizzling. It was ...Hugo Armitage The New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'We were too busy at the counter to join ... the [church] service, but once I worked down in a lull and talked a bit to one lad who was quitely reading his Testament; but... The New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'I received about a month ago the Revd Willm Thomson of Ochiltree's new translation of the Testament. Of course I am no judge of his 'new renderings'; but the stile both...Thomas Carlyle William ThomsonThe New Testament. Translated from the Greek, 3 vo...Print: Book
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 6 August 1846: 'The "Modern Timon" is not, I think, by a [italics]poet[end italics], but it is the work of a clever man, an...John Gibson Lockhart Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe New TimonPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man".'Thomas Turner Richard AllestreeThe new whole duty of man, containing the faith as...Print: Book
1900-1945'22nd September 1928 (Saturday). The cat is out of the bag over the Anglo-French naval pact. One of the Hearst papers, ?The New York American? has got hold of a letter...Gerald Moore The New York AmericanPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699August 14. I had read Mr Whately of the new birth, and it affected mee exceedingly, and put mee upon prayer, and search of my selfeIsaac Archer William WhatelyThe New-Birth:or, a treatise of regeneration, deliPrint: Book
1850-1899'Stopped at home & read "The Newcomers" until nearly mid-night.'John Buckley Castieau William Makepeace ThackerayThe NewcomersPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little girls & Harry stayed with me a good deal during the...John Buckley Castieau William Makepeace ThackerayThe NewcomesPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading Gall's Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau in the evening, with, occasionally, Carpenter's Comparative Physiology. The Newcomes as light fare after dinner'...George Eliot and G.H. LewesWilliam Makepeace ThackerayThe NewcomesPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false...Alfred Tennyson William Makepeace ThackerayThe NewcomesPrint: Book
1850-1899'there has been so much motion that it has been next to impossible for a person to work. I have read lately the "Newcomes" by Thackeray "Stuart of Dunleath" by Mrs Norton...Albert Battiscombe William ThackerayThe Newcomes. Memoirs of a most respectable familyPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'I am still at The Newcomes...' (2) 'Talking about stodge, I finished "The Newcomes" before leaving home, and certainly enjoyed the end better than any parts excep...Clive Staples Lewis William Makepeace ThackerayThe Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable FamilyPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Newcomes'Sarah Good William ThackerayThe Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable FamilyPrint: Book
1600-1699'This day the News-book (upon Mr Moores showing Lestrange Captain Ferrers letter) did do my Lord Sandwich great right as to the late victory.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]The NewesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'These men, with several others whose curiosity began to be awakened by the tenor of our political gossip, united with myself in subscribing for a weekly newspaper. We wo...Thomas Carter and workmates at the tailors workshop [n/a]The NewsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one... The NiebelungliedPrint: Book


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