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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 Christopher SmartOn the immensity of the Supreme Being: a poetical ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Maria Josepha Holroyd in her teens was "enchanted" with the "all for Love" of de Stael's "Delphine", which in mature years she viewed more critically (if still with enjo...Maria Josepha Holroyd Germaine de StaelDelphinePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mary Delaney frequently discussed her reading of plays.'Mary Delany playsPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes' voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she also criticised the "prudery of the Ladies", who are...Elizabeth Montagu John HawkesworthAn account of voyages...Print: Book
1700-1799'as with history, women use their reading of travels to interrogate an androcentric concept of heroism. Elizabeth Montagu felt "surfeited" with what she thought the point...Elizabeth Montagu James BruceTravels to discover the source of the Nile, in the...Print: Book
1700-1799'Mrs Keith of Ravelstone remembered, as a girl in London perhaps in the 1760s, hearing Aphra Behn's fiction "read aloud for the amusement of large circles of the first an...Mrs ? Keith (of Ravelstone) Aphra BennDelphinePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'. . . You must, doubtless, have seen in the Gazette the account of 2 ships appearing in the north of Russia which are presumed to have been those of Captn Cooke & Capt. ...Frances Burney  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'. . . the Morning Post had yesterday this Paragraph?We hear Lieutenant Burney has succeeded to the command of Capt. Clerke?s ship.'Frances Burney  Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'On Christmas day of 1756 he read seven of Tillotson's Sermons during the day and evening.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsUnknown
1700-1799[while he was doing his accounts Turner's wife read aloud to him] 'the moving Scene of the Funeral of Miss Clarissa Harlowe' - "Oh: may the Supreme Being give me Grace to...Peggy Turner Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799'in the Even my Wife and I read part of the Sermon preach'd... at the opening of St Peters Cornhill 1681.'Peggy Turner unknown sermonUnknown
1700-1799'in the Even my Wife and I read part of the Sermon preach'd... at the opening of St Peters Cornhill 1681.'Thomas Turner unknown sermonUnknown
1700-1799'In reading the "Odyssey" last night among many curious passages these two lines I think applicable to the present times, Viz, "why cease ye then ye wreath of Heaven to s...Thomas Turner HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'My wife read to me in the Even 4 No. of the Freeholder.'Peggy Turner The FreeholderPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799 'Mr Elles and I read 3 of Tillotson's sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsUnknown
1700-1799Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh...John Byrom  Print: Pamphlet, Unknown
1700-1799Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh...John Byrom  Print: Book
1700-1799Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh...John Byrom booksPrint: Book
1700-1799Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh...John Byrom  Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Joseph Fuller Jun. And Tho. Durrant drank some Coffee with me... to whom I read One of Tillotson's Sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsUnknown


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