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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 20 September 1849:

'I read with pleasure "Friends in Council," and with very great pleasure "The Thoughts and Opinions of a...		Charlotte Brontë Friedrich Wilhelm von HumboldtThoughts and Opinions of a StatesmanPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Miss Hennell's] is a wonderful book for beauty; - a really wonderful poem, it seems to me: but O dear! so unsound in the latter part! - so weak in it...Harriet Martineau Sara Sophia HennellThoughts in Aid of FaithPrint: Book
1700-1799'On Sunday, April 12, I found him at home before dinner; Dr. Dodd's poem entitled "Thoughts in Prison" was lying upon his table. This appearing to me an extraordinary eff...Samuel Johnson William DoddThoughts in Prison Print: Book
1700-1799'On Sunday, April 12, I found him at home before dinner; Dr. Dodd's poem entitled "Thoughts in Prison" was lying upon his table. This appearing to me an extraordinary eff...James Boswell William DoddThoughts in Prison Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge William GodwinThoughts Occasioned by the Perusal of Dr Parr's Sp...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 1st book of Tacitus - become unwell - read Davis's travels in america - Godwins cursory strictures - reply to the attacks of Dr Parr'Mary Shelley William GodwinThoughts occasioned by the perusal of Dr. Parr's S...Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'There is a very extraordinary passage in Rousseau's Thoughts on Fanaticism. It is printed in his Thoughts, published by Debrett, Vol.i. page 11. Bayle (says he) has a...James Lackington Jean-Jacques RousseauThoughts of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Citizen of Gene...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 26-27 September 1828: 'On opening your book to look for Joan of Arc, I came upon your translation of the beautiful episode in th...Elizabeth Barrett Hugh Stuart BoydThoughts on an Illustrious ExilePrint: Book
1800-1849'Assure Mr Montagu, that his Book was the most delightful I have read for many days. Your hand also was visible in it. Why does he not publish more such?' Thomas Carlyle Basil MontaguThoughts on Laughter By a Chancery BarristerUnknown
1800-1849'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Pal...James Lackington Blaise PascalThoughts on Religion and Other SubjectsPrint: Book
1900-1945'… folk talk about men not wanting religion—the men who really know what the War is have a different tale to tell—have you read Neville’s book, just out? I’ll send ...Philip Thomas Byard Clayton Neville TalbotThoughts on Religion at the FrontPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read the Bible everyday, and at much length; also, - with what I cannot but think some praiseworthy patience, - a book of incommunicable dreariness, called Newton's "T...Edmund Gosse Benjamin Wills NewtonThoughts on the ApocalypsePrint: Book
1900-1945'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the meeting whilst the authorship of some was quickly a...members of XII Book ClubHenry Marriage WallisThoughts on the Construction of Cathedrals Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respecting the Falkland Islands, as it displayed in such f...Adam Smith Samuel JohnsonThoughts On the Late Transactions Respecting Falkl...Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'His description of its [the situation in the Falklands] miseries in this pamphlet ['Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands'] is one of the fines...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonThoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkl...Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "Well, sir, which of them did you think the best?" Bo...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonThoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkl...Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'[quoting from the pamphlet "A Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson, occasioned by his late Political Publications." by Joseph Towers] "I would, however, wish you to remember, sh...Joseph Towers Samuel JohnsonThoughts On the Late Transactions Respecting Falkl...Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'Read Burke's "Letters on a Regicide Peace"...'Thomas Green Edmund BurkeThoughts on the prospect of a regicide peacePrint: Book
1850-1899'on their wedding journey they [John Symonds and Catherine North] have been writing a paper on Christmas, - which looks to me [italics] very [end italics] clever, & Mr Sy...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Addington SymondsThoughts on Xmas. In Florence, 1863Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night", Scott's Waverley novels, Carroll's "Alice ...William Somerset Maugham [anon.]Thousand Nights and One Night, ThePrint: Book


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