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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'"Sunday (said he) was a heavy day to me when I was a boy. My mother confined me on that day, and made me read "The Whole Duty of Man", from a great part of which I could...Samuel Johnson Richard AllestreeWhole Duty of Man, ThePrint: Book
'On Friday, April 2, being Good-Friday, I visited him in the morning as usual; and finding that we insensibly fell into a train of ridicule upon the foibles of one of our...James Boswell Richard AllestreeGovernment of the Tongue, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'It was not strange in these circumstances [suffering from cardiac complications of rheumatic fever] that I became more and more absorbed in the religious literatur...William Henry Hudson Richard AllestreeThe Whole Duty of ManPrint: Book
1800-1849'Recieved another parcel from Hessey [...] a present of "Aytons Essays" a young writer of great promise which was killed in the bud these essays are excelent and contain ...John Clare Richard AytonEssays and Sketches of CharacterPrint: Book
1700-1799No rest for me in bed, therefore rise 1/2 past 4... summerhouse till 1/2 past 7 read Baker's ChroniclesGertrude Savile Richard BakerA Chronicle of the Kings of England from the TimePrint: Book
1700-1799I left the old woman with mother as soon as supper was done. Read Baker's Chronicles 1 1/2 hours. Bed at 11.Gertrude Savile Richard BakerA Chronicle of the Kings of EnglandPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton Richard BakerA Chronicle of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799At night I read some of the lives and characters of of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affected with their piety, Zeal and steadiness[...] conclu...James Clegg Richard BaxterThe Saints Everlasting Rest.Print: Book
1700-1799At night I read some of the lives and characters of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affected with their piety, Zeal and steadiness[...] concluded...James Clegg Richard BaxterAn abridgement of Mr Baxter's life and times. WithPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard BaxterReliquiae BaxterianaPrint: Book
1600-1699... between sixteen and seventeen years of age, by the serious reading of the Book called _The Saints Everlasting Rest_, she was more throughly awakened, and brought to s...Elizabeth Baker Richard BaxterThe Saints Everlasting RestPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard BaxterReliquiae Baxterianae & cPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard BaxterReliquiae Baxterianae & cPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard BaxterReliquiae Baxterianae & cPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard BaxterCatholick TheologiePrint: Book
1800-1849'Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with me, & read with pleasure very frequently. My friends ...Sarah Harriet Burney Richard BaxterBaxterianaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with me, & read with pleasure very frequently. My friends ...Sarah Harriet Burney Richard BaxterOf Coversing [sic] with God in SolitudePrint: Book
1600-1699'October 19. I was reading the preface to Baxter's Rest, where he writes that we should mind our inheritance, and that because God tossed and tumbled us about in this wor...Isaac Archer Richard BaxterThe Saints Everlasting RestPrint: Book
1600-1699'[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce leave of[f]; I read Mr Baxter's Rest about meditati...Isaac Archer Richard BaxterThe Saints Everlasting RestPrint: Book
1700-1799'I asked him what works of Richard Baxter's I should read. He said, "Read any of them; they are all good".' Samuel Johnson Richard Baxter Print: Book


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