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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1500-1599'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Cic...Gabriel Harvey Sallust unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes, some evidently copied from Lord Macaulay's own marginalia in another volume. On p.145 Sir George writes: "I used to think this very fine at school. It now seems...George Otto Trevelyan Sallust Opera omniaPrint: Book
1800-1849My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat...John Cole Salomon GessnerThe Death of AbelPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 May 1761:] 'To make you amends for all the nonsense which I have collected from all the frippery shelves throughout Westminst...Elizabeth Carter Salomon GessnerLa Mort d'AbelPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 August 1761:] 'I am ashamed to say I have not yet sent La Mort d'Abel to Mrs Donnelan; but the truth is, I began reading it to...Catherine Talbot Salomon GessnerLa Mort d'AbelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Munk, Melanges de Philosophie juive et arabe'.George Eliot [pseud.] Salomon MunkMelanges de Philosophie Juive et ArabePrint: Book
1900-1945Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion; Farnell,...Joan Evans Salomon ReinachOrpheus:A History of ReligionsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Feb 1899' on flyleaf. Some marginalia in English and French on the following pages: 54, 75, 77, 110, 163.Vernon Lee Salomon StrickerDu langage et de musiquePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Henry Buckle's "History of the Civilisation in England"] will be my fireside book at night (the only time I can read well) as soon as I have finished dear Sam Brown's v...Harriet Martineau Sam BrownLectures on the Atomic Theory, and Essays, Scienti...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have many things I should like to say to the writer of the remarks on 'Mary Barton' which Miss Mitchell has sent me, and which I conjecture were written by your husban...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Sam Greg[remarks on Gaskell's 'Mary Barton']Manuscript: Unknown
1500-1599'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Ciceronianus" of Sambucus -- that had led him to the "Cic...Gabriel Harvey Sambucus CiceronianusPrint: Book
completed the perusal of the firstvolume of Perry's French Revolution, which requires to be read with care, the author a Democratic writer too often attempts to justify p...I.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849Continued the perusal of the 2nd volume which opens a display of the insubordination & cruelty of the French populaceI.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
READING THE 2ND VOLUME OF PERRY'S FRENCH REVOLUTIONI.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849Continue the perusal of Perry's French Revolution, which like the murmurings heard at the foot of the crater become more dreadful as we approach to its summit I.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
Still engaged in the perusal of Perry's French Revolution together with a few periodical publications by way of a change of its summit I.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849Continued Perry's French Revolution and read Cowper I.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1850-1899'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f...Thomas Jones Samuel Baker[Probably] 'The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the...Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte's "Social Science" in Miss Martineau's edition'.George Eliot [pseud] Samuel BamfordPassages in the Life of a RadicalPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 May 1845: 'I know Bamford's "Life of a Radical," which contains some of his verses -- but there seemed to me to be more p...Elizabeth Barrett Samuel BamfordPassages in the Life of a RadicalPrint: Book


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