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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'In reading "The History of England" I find that England first took that name under Egbert the 1st monarch of England after the Saxon Heptarchy, anno 801.'Thomas Turner anonThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Found in "The History of England" that England was first divided into counties, parishes, etc. in King Alfred's reign, about the year 890...'Thomas Turner anonThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'At home all day. Not at church all day. Read part of Boyle's lectures and Smart's poem on eternity and immensity.'Thomas Turner William DerhamPhysico-TheologyPrint: Book
1700-1799'At home all day. Not at church all day. Read part of Boyle's lectures and Smart's poem on eternity and immensity.'Thomas Turner Christopher SmartOn the eternity of the Supreme Being: a poetical e...Print: Book
1700-1799'Not at church all day, neither looked in any book all day except "The Tatler".'Thomas Turner The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In the even read part of the 4th volume of "The Tatler", in which I find some very agreeable stories, in particular one wherein a beautiful and virtuous young lady is ru...Thomas Turner The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In the even read part of the 4th volume of "The Tatler", which I think the oftener I read the better I like it. I think I never found the vice of drinking so well explod...Thomas Turner The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Came home about 7 o'clock; read several numbers in the 4th volume of "The Tatler".'Thomas Turner The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In the even read Derham's "Sermons at Boyle's Lectures", wherein I find a man evacuates as much in one day by insensible perspiration as in 14 by stool.'Thomas Turner William DerhamPhysico-TheologyPrint: Book
1700-1799'My wife read the 20th and 21st numbers of "The Guardian" to me, which I think extremely good, the first of which shows how indispensable a duty forgiveness is and the la...Peggy Turner The GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'A novel by Thomas Holcroft, "Anna St Ives", dismissed as "sad stuff I cannot read on".'Anna Larpent Thomas HolcroftAnna St IvesPrint: Book
1700-1799[in April 1792 Larpent read] 'Smellie's "Philosophy of Nature" [sic] which she considered poorly organized but of sufficient value to transcribe extracts for her children...Anna Larpent William SmelliePhilosophy of Natural HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799'The story of Percy is simple, pathetic, distressing, this worked up to the most moving height of distress; the power of virtue on the mind is well contrasted with the ma...Anna Larpent Hannah MorePercyPrint: Book
1700-1799'With a fine imagination and command of Language Charlotte Smith cannot write without Interest [.] this is an odd work. She introduces in a prettily wrought novel the mor...Anna Larpent Charlotte SmithDesmondPrint: Book
1700-1799[Anna Seward on Thomas Gisborne's conduct books]: 'too strict'; they 'might have been more generally useful upon a less rigid plan of admonition, especially the volume de...Anna Seward Thomas Gisborne[conduct books]Print: Book
1700-1799'In the even T Davy brought a p[ai]r Shoes for my nephew and stayed and Supp'd w[i]th us and I read him the 4th of Tillotson's Sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'in the even I wrote my London letters... also read the News paper... as I was a writing all the even my wife read "Clarissa Harlowe" to me.'Peggy Turner Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'In the evening read Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant", where I find the Turks think the dead are relieved by prayer.'Thomas Turner Joseph Pitton de TournefortVoyage into the LevantPrint: Book
1700-1799'My wife read part of "Clarissa Harlowe" to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book.'Peggy Turner Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slender a wire may be drawn from gold that from once oun...Thomas Turner William DerhamPhysico-TheologyPrint: Book


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