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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
 
1850-1899In the BL copy: Written in margin of "Paper: Its Applications and its Novelties" p16 'In 1853 the sum of #4000 was at last paid to Mr Archer for his process -- and stamps...George DoddCuriosities of IndustryPrint: Book
1800-1849In the evening, between 8+9, read from pp 263-307, vol I, Gibbon's Miscellaneous works. He died in London [...] 16 JanuaryAnne Lister Edward GibbonMiscellaneous WorksPrint: Book
1800-1849In the evening, read in the European magazine for last month, an additional memoir of the life of Napoleon...Madame de Stael rather too tender to Napoleon. One day to get...Anne Lister European MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945In the evenings before patience time M. works while I read “Sketches from Boz” to her. Quite a Darby & Joan affair.Arthur Morris Charles DickensSketches by 'Boz'Print: Book
1900-1945In the evenings before patience time M. works while I read “Sketches from Boz” to her. Quite a Darby & Joan affair.Margery Morris Charles DickensSketches by 'Boz'Print: Book
1800-1849In the morning, looking over the abridgement of Spence's Polymetics... that was Isabella's... gave me the idea of writing a work on antiquities.Anne Lister Joseph SpencePolymetics AbridgedPrint: Book
1600-1699In the order and government of his Family, he was very exemplary. His house was another Bethel, for he did not onely constantly upon conscientious principles use morning...William Gouge ScripturesPrint: Book
1900-1945In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th...Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) William PaleyView of the Evidences of ChristianityPrint: Book
1900-1945In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th...Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Ernst Heinrich Philipp August HaeckelRiddle of the UniversePrint: Book
1900-1945In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th...Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Herbert SpencerThe Study of SociologyPrint: Book
1900-1945In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th...Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Marcus AureliusMeditationsPrint: Book
1600-1699In the year 1622 he was chosen reader, and read upon the statute 32 H.8, cap 2, concerning lymitations. . . .After the recept of the writreturnable the tearme following h...John Bramston Statute 32 Henry VIII cap. 2 and statute 13 Eliz. ...Manuscript: Codex
1600-1699In the year 1650, as I well remember, I was onenight reading in my bed (as it was my custom then to do, in some book or other) in the Anatomy of Melancholy: and coming to...John Gadbury Robert BurtonThe Anatomy of MelancholyPrint: Book
1500-1599In this Family, partly by his own inclination, and partly by the encouragement of the Governours thereof, he performed Family Duties for the instruction and edification ...Thomas Gataker ScripturesPrint: Book
1700-1799In this room was a number of books, and among them every thing which had been published by Thomas Paine, all these I had read and cheap editions were in my possession; bu...Francis Place Thomas PaineAge of ReasonPrint: Book
1600-1699In Will of Robert Keayne of Boston: 'As my special gift to ... [his son] my little written book in my closet upon I Cor. II, 27, 28, which is a treatise on the sacrament ...Robert Keayne Treatise on I. Corinthians II.27, 28Manuscript: Codex, Leather bound pocketbook
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Detailed reading notes from Thomas Vaughan's Magia Adamica (1650). Edward Pordage Thomas VaughanMagia Adamica. Or the Antiquity of Magic, And the ...Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extensive reading notes from Robert Ferguson's A View of an Ecclesiastick in his Socks & Buskins (1698). ...Edward Pordage Robert FergusonA View of an Ecclesiastick in his Socks & Buskins,...Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes on memory from Francis Bacon's Of the proficience and advancement of learning (1605). ...Edward Pordage Francis BaconOf the proficience and advancement of learningPrint: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes on memory from the fifth edition of Thomas Wilson's The Arte of Rhetorike, for the vse of all suche as ar...Edward Pordage Thomas WilsonThe Arte of Rhetorike, for the vse of all suche as...Print: Book


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