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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was continued for several years until the death of my landla...Francis Place various [biographies]Print: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place David Hume[Essays and Treatises]Print: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place Adam SmithWealth of NationsPrint: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place John Locke Print: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place various [history]Print: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place various [voyages]Print: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place various [politics and law]Print: Book
1700-1799I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I attacked it vigorously and perseveringly...Francis Place [geometry text]Print: Book
1700-1799I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I attacked it vigorously and perseveringly...Francis Place WilliamsonEuclidPrint: Book
1700-1799In this room was a number of books, and among them every thing which had been published by Thomas Paine, all these I had read and cheap editions were in my possession; bu...Francis Place Thomas PaineAge of ReasonPrint: Book
1700-1799[Proceedings of the London Corresponding Society] The usual mode of proceeding at these weekly meetings was this. The chairman read from some book a chapter or part of a ...Members of the London Corresponding Society  Print: Book
1700-1799I was finally induced to come to this determination sooner than I should otherwise have done by reading Mr Godwins 'Enquiry concerning Political Justice'.Francis Place William GodwinInquiry Concerning Political JusticePrint: Book
1700-1799I used to plod at the French Grammar as I sat at my work, the book being fixed before me I was diligent also in learning all I could after I left off working at night.Francis Place unknown [French grammar]Print: Book
1700-1799I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never went from home in the evening I always learned and ...Francis Place Helvetius Print: Book
1700-1799I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never went from home in the evening I always learned and ...Francis Place Jean-Jacques Rousseau Print: Book
1700-1799I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never went from home in the evening I always learned and ...Francis Place Voltaire Print: Book
1700-1799"The habits and tastes of Mr Opie were, happily, very inexpensive... [he and his wife] spent the evening hours in converse ... reading with her books of amusement or inst...John Opie [various books, fiction in particular]Print: Book
1700-1799Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's Spelling Book;' I was now turned over [to another t...Robert Anderson Thomas DycheThe Spelling DictionaryPrint: Book
1700-1799Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's Spelling Book;' Iwas now turned over [to another te...Robert Anderson Reading Made EasyPrint: Book
1700-1799Having studied my letters, the see-saw drone of the 'Primer, ' and waded through the 'Reading Made Easy, 'and 'Dyche's Spelling Book;' Iwas now turned over [to another te...Robert Anderson [A Primer]Print: Book


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