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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'W[ordsworth copied quotations from Descartes into D[ove] C[ottage] MS 31, leaves 71-2, c. Feb 1801.'William Wordsworth Rene DescartesunknownUnknown
1600-1699Adrian Johns notes that "It was [Robert] Hooke who, during his employ with [Robert] Boyle, conducted him through most of Descartes's works; before that Boyle had ... read...Robert Boyle Rene Descartes Print: Book
1600-1699Adrian Johns notes that "It was [Robert] Hooke who, during his employ with [Robert] Boyle, conducted him through most of Descartes's works; before that Boyle had ... read...Robert Boyle Rene DescartesPassionsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rene DescartesOpera PhilosophicaPrint: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesRene Descartes Print: Book
1800-1849'My father said of his friend: "Arthur Hallam could take in the most abstruse ideas with the utmost rapidity and insight [...] On one occasion, I remember, he mastered a ...Arthur Hallam Rene Descartes Print: Book
1900-1945In London too the usual life with Viva Jeyes in Grove End Road was mixed with mornings in the British Museum, reading 'Brunow and Dussaud' on Roman roads in Moab an...Freya Stark Rene Dussaud[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading on board the life of Pasteur, provided by Sylvia. It would interest you both, especially you, for now that I come to think of it wriggling germs are ...Gertrude Bell René Vallery-RadotLa Vie de PasteurPrint: Book
1700-1799'For the sake of improving myself in the French language, began to translate Vertot's "Revolutions of Portugal".'Joseph Hunter Rene VertotHistoire des Revolutions de PortugalPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Rene Aubert de Vertot[book(s) on Revolutions]Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 May 1768:] 'This day I finish Pharamond: is Mrs Sutton still in town, that I may return it to her? if not, when you write, pr...Catherine Talbot Rene Aubert de VertotHistoire des Chevaliers hospitaliers de S. Jean de...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Rene Aubert VertotRevolutions of Portugal, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Rene Aubert VertotHistory of the revolutions in Sweden, occasioned b...Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Deserted Village,' were it not sometimes too much the ec...Samuel Johnson Rene Aubert VertotRévolutions romains Print: Book
1700-1799'I shall give them from a book called a "Collection of Voyages by the Dutch East Company", Lond. 1703, p. 116, where, supposing the author who speaks of ten numbers and g...Joseph Banks Rene Augustin Constantin de RennevilleA collection of voyages undertaken by the Dutch Ea...Print: Book
1850-1899'Then again, I have nice books to read. The new French poets. Prudhomme is adorable − I shall have a lot of Sully Prudhomme to read when I come to you. Soulary bett...Robert Louis Stevenson Rene-Francois-Armand Sully-Prudhommeunknown poetryPrint: Book
1800-1849Mathematics, I have absolutely never thought on - excepting some trifles from the Ladies' and Gentleman's diary - which I shall have conscience enough not to trouble you ...Thomas Carlyle Reuben BURROWUnknown from 'Ladies' and Gentleman's Diary'Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Long description of character of Sir Keneth (?) Digby. 'By his eager pursuit of knowledge seemed to be born only for contemplation, but he was thought to be so well qua...Frances Hamilton Rev J GrangerBiographical History of England from Egbert the Gr...Print: Book
1850-1899'We were told that a Bible and Testament were placed at the head of each bed; and we saw one convict reading "Recreations in Astronomy".'anon Rev Lewis TomlinsonRecreations in AstronomyPrint: Book
1700-179924 Oct 1788: 'Smith's version of Longinus on the Sublime, a translation with notes and observations - is a credit to the author and reflects lustre on Longinus himself. ...Frances Hamilton Rev William SmithPoetic Works including his version of Longinus on ...Print: Book


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