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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Baxter's "Reasons of the Christian Religion", he thought contained the best collection of the evidences of the divinity of the Christian system.' Samuel Johnson Richard BaxterReasons of the Christian Religion, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799' [letter from Johnson to bookseller Mr Dilly] There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the booksellers on the bridge, and which I must entreat you t...Samuel Johnson Richard BaxterCall to the Unconverted to Turn and LivePrint: Book
1900-1945'Have read Guilty Women by Richard Baxter. He calls Edda Mussolini the most dangerous woman in Europe.'Vere Hodgson Richard BaxterGuilty WomenPrint: 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 BaxterA Call to the Unconverted to Turn and LivePrint: 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 BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting RestPrint: Book
1800-1849'"drudge like Selden days & nights And in the Endless labour die"'.Lady Caroline Lamb Richard BentleyA Reply to a Copy of Verses made in Imitation of O...Print: Book
1800-1849?I shall certainly have the pleasure of seeing you tomorrow, and will turn over the prospectus in my mind, meanwhile.?Charles Dickens Richard BentleyProspectus for Bentley?s MiscellanyManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 January 1831: 'You will lend me Phalaris (will you not?) at some future time -- -- i have read it [italics]once[end italics...Elizabeth Barrett Richard BentleyA Dissertation upon the Epistles of PhalarisPrint: Book
1700-1799'Boswell. "But, Sir, may there not be very good conversation without a contest for superiority." Johnson. "No animated conversation, Sir; for it cannot be but one or othe...Samuel Johnson Richard Bentley[edition of Horace with commentary]Print: Book
1700-1799'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Johnson one day gave high praise to Dr. Bentley's verses in Dodsley's "Collection", which he recited...Samuel Johnson Richard Bentley Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the merry beggars. Elvira'Mary Shelley Richard BromeJovial Crew, A; or the Merry BeggarsPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the day read part of Burn's "Justice".'Thomas Turner Richard BurnThe Justice of the Peace and Parish OfficerPrint: Book
1700-1799' [letter from Johnson to bookseller Mr Dilly] There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the booksellers on the bridge, and which I must entreat you t...Samuel Johnson Richard BurtonAdmirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in En...Print: Book
1850-1899'Nothing approaching it [Cunninghame Graham's book "Mogreb-el-Acksa"] has appeared since Burton's "Mecca" [...] and Burton's "Mecca" is nowhere near it.'Joseph Conrad Richard BurtonPersonal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah a...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard ByfieldThe Doctrine of the Sabbath VindicatedPrint: Book
1800-1849'he was receptive to the radical anticlericalism of William Cobbett, T.J. Wooler and Richard Carlile... "These books seemed to be founded upon Scripture and Condemned all...Joseph Mayett Richard Carlile Print: Book
1800-1849'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, whi...Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in LeedsRichard CarlileRepublicanPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849?[James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in ...James Watson Richard CarlileRepublicanPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical principle these men had got several books that were writ...Joseph Mayett Richard Carlisle[various titles]Print: Book
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1900-1945		'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came across phrases that puzzled me, such as "sans-culotte...Joseph Stamper Richard Church[unknown]Print: Unknown


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