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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Finished Monier Williams'George Eliot [pseud] Monier Monier Williams[presumably work on Sanskrit]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme alou...Henry Maynard Monier Williamswork/s on Eastern religionsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Talking of puns, Johnson, who had a great contempt for that species of wit, deigned to allow that there was one good pun in "Menagiana," I think on the word corps'.Samuel Johnson Monsieur MenageMenagiana Ou Les Bons MotsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook Montague David EderWar Shock: The Psycho-Neuroses in War Psychology a...Print: Book
1850-1899'I hope you got the books and that you wanted them. The Jokai is very extraordinary. I don't feel to be able to judge books in which the young ladies of the house sit in ...Gertrude Bell Mór (Maurus) Jókai unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Here is the much talked of book [Morley Robert's "Time and Thomas Waring"]. It has been a pain for me to read it all through, though it didn't make me slop over an...William Henry Hudson Morley RobertsTime and Thomas Waring: A Study of a ManPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay there a week. [...] Remove to Villetta Valsovano near M...Claire Clairmont Morris BirbeckNotes on a Journey in America, from the Coast of V...Print: Book
1800-1849'Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is not candid. If a man chuses to say: I will live up t...Sydney Smith Morris BirkbeckNotes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Vi...Print: Book
1800-1849'Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is not candid. If a man chuses to say: I will live up t...Sydney Smith Morris BirkbeckLetters from IllinoisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Gower Cottage, 20.II.’39
R. D. L. Moore, & subsequently H. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last read & approved.
[...]
5. R....		Sylvanus A. Reynolds Mortimer Menpes?The ThamesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Some body shewed my Mother the Verses written by Moses Franks upon Mrs Pitt bathing at Brighthelmstone - These says She were written by Moses [italics] uninspired [end i...Hester Maria Salusbury Moses Franks[verses on Mrs Pitt bathing]Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Moses MendelssohnMorgenstunden oder Vorlesungun uber das Daseyn GotPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Moses MendelssohnPhilosophische SchriftenPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Moses MendelssohnJerusalem oder uber religiose Macht und JudenthumPrint: Book
1900-1945I can remember at the age of fourteen the tranquillity which a first reading of the Phaedon, the death of Socrates, gave me - a widening of the bounds of life which...Freya Stark Moses MendelssohnPhaedonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Pray Read the first Vol of Elphinstone's India - the News from China gives me the greatest pleasure. I am for bombarding all the exclusive Asiatics who shut up the Earth...Sydney Smith Mountstuart ElphinstoneHistory of IndiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'S goes to Egham - he reads Aeschylus and tavels in the kingdom of Caubul - read Rasselas - make jellies and work'Percy Bysshe Shelley Mountstuart ElphinstoneAccount of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependenc...Print: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes the plays of Aeschylus - finishes the Hist. of Caubul - writes - reads three chap. of Gibbon aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Mountstuart ElphinstoneAccount of the Kingdom of Caubul and its dependenc...Print: Book
1850-1899'I tell [Mr Aide] my "honest opinion" of his [italics] first [end italics] volume at any rate: It introduces one just exactly into the kid of disrepuble [sic] society one...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Mr AideRitaPrint: Book
1850-1899'When "Currer" [Charlotte Bronte] and I [Harriet Martineau] came home, there were proof-sheets [of Martineau's correspondence with Atkinson] lying; and I read her Mr. Atk...Harriet Martineau Mr AtkinsonLetter on "distribution of the brain"Print: In proof


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