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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Sarah Harriet Burney read Ariosto with "delight", but "Here and there he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that a...Sarah Harriet Burney Ariosto Print: Book
1700-1799'Tho. Davy came in after supper and stayed with us about 2 1/2 hours. He and I looked over Gordon's "Geographical Grammar", and in particular the religions of all nations...Thomas Turner Patrick GordonGeography anatomized: or a compleat geographical g...Print: Book
1700-1799'In the even read several numbers of the "Freeholder" which I think is a proper book for anyone to look into at this critical juncture of affairs.'Thomas Turner The Monitor; or the British FreeholderPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'At home all day... In reading Homer's "Odyssey", I think the character which Menelaus gives Telemachus of Ulysses, when he is a-speaking of his war-like virtues in the 4...Thomas Turner HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Saw in the Lewes newspaper of this day that on Saturday last there was several explosions heard in the bowels of the earth like an earthquake in the parishes of Waldron ...Thomas Turner Sussex Weekly Advertiser, or Lewes JournalPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Read some of "The History of England".'Thomas Turner The History of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read part of Hervey's "Theron and Aspasio".'Thomas Turner James HerveyTheron and Aspasio: or, a series of dialogues and ...Print: Book
1700-1799'This afternoon very bad with tooth-ache. Read the newspaper wherein I find the nation is all in a ferment upon the account of losing dear Minorca.' Thomas Turner [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'In the evening read 3 of Tillotson's sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read one of Tillotson's sermons and which I think a very good one.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read to Tho. Davy an appeal to the public on behalf of Admiral Byng wherein he is clearly proved to be no ways guilty of what has been laid to his charge, na...Thomas Turner [Byng]An appeal to the people: containing the genuine an...Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'In the even read to Tho. Davy an appeal to the public in behalf of Admiral Byng ...I also read Bally's poem on the wisdom of the Supreme Being, which I think is a very s...Thomas Turner George BallyThe Wisdom of the Supreme BeingPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read part of Locke's "Essay on Human Understanding", which I find to be a very abstruse book.'Thomas Turner John LockeAn essay concerning human understandingPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read 4 of Tillotson's sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even Tho. Davy sat with us about 3 hours and to whom and in the day I read 7 of Tillotson's sermons.'Thomas Turner John TillotsonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even in reading the "Lewes Journal" I found the following remarkable character, which I admire not for the diction, but for the justness of it and for imitation: ...Thomas Turner Lewes JournalPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'In the even read a sermon preached at this church on the 1st of August 1716 by the Rev. Mr Richard Haworth on the wonders of providence in the defence of the reformation...Thomas Turner Richard Haworth[Sermon]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Read in the day part of Burkitt's "Poor Man's Help or Young Man's Guide", which I think the best book I ever read of the size.'Thomas Turner William BurkittThe poor man's help and the young man's guidePrint: Book
1700-1799'In perusing an abridgment of the "Life of Madame de Maintenon" in "The Universal Magazine" for March, I find the following, being the advice given her by her mother Mada...Thomas Turner The Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasurePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'This day read in the "Gazette" of the 20th instant that the King of Prussia had on the 6th instant gained a complete victory over the whole combined forces of Austria (n...Thomas Turner The London GazettePrint: Newspaper


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