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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Began Lastri - "Osservatore Fiorentino" - this morning, intending to go regularly through it'George Eliot [pseud] Marco LastriL'Osservatore FiorentinoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino'George Eliot [pseud] Marco LastriOsservatore FiorentinoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Osservatore Fiorentino'Mary Shelley Marco LastriL'Osservatore Fiorentino sugli edifizi della sua p...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish the Osservatore F.'Mary Shelley Marco LastriL'Osservatore Fiorentino sugli edifizi della sua p...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Marco Polo's Travels which are amusing enough though containing a pretty large collection of absurdities [...]'Benjamin Newton Marco PoloThe Travels of Marco PoloPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Marco Polo, a very curious book for the time in which it was written, wonderfully accurate in the account of the people bating his miracles [...] which was the ...Benjamin Newton Marco PoloThe Travels of Marco PoloPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Rawlings read from Polo's description of the Great Khan.'Helen Rawlings Marco PoloTravels of Marco Polo Print: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: 'Mie principal Autors for Warr, after much reading,...Gabriel Harvey Marco Antonio GandinounknownPrint: Book
1800-1849At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read the title pages of Barnes?s Euripides, Marcus Antoninu...Elizabeth Barrett Marcus Antoninus Print: Book, Pamphlet
1800-1849I read half the 6th book of Antoninus today ? so I can?t say, after all, perdidi diem [I have lost a day].Elizabeth Barrett Marcus Antoninus Print: Book
1800-1849I read the other half of Antoninus?s sixth book, - & half his seventh, besides. What a creature I am ? to spend my time in this way, between philosophy & folly. Anoninu...Elizabeth Barrett Marcus Antoninus Print: Book
1800-1849On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the end. My energies felt dead within me: & how could I...Elizabeth Barrett Marcus Antoninus Print: Book
1800-1849On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the end. My energies felt dead within me: & how could I...Elizabeth Barrett Marcus Antoninus Print: Book
1850-1899'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius'Thomas Thompson Marcus Aurelius[Meditations]?Print: Book
1900-1945I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius' in leather: it defeated me. Words...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Marcus AureliusThe Meditations of Marcus AureliusPrint: Book
1900-1945In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th...Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Marcus AureliusMeditationsPrint: Book
1800-1849"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo...Frances Power Cobbe Marcus Aurelius Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote 2nd vol; Marcus Aurelius; Vita Nuova; vol IV, Chapte...George Eliot [pseud] Marcus AureliusunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Miss M. A. Wallis read an excellent paper on Marcus Aurelius which was followed by an interesting discussion'.M.A. Wallis Marcus Aurelius Print: Book
1900-1945‘Mrs Voynich has sent me M Aurelius and Epictetus. The last is a game old boy, and I should dearly love to watch him in a strafe, but M Aurelius is a pious swanker in...Ivor Bertie Gurney Marcus AureliusMeditationsPrint: Book


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