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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes on Raymond Lull's Art of Memory, copied from the second edition of Richard Saunders's Physiognomie, and C...Edward Pordage Richard SaundersPhysiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, The S...Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from the dedicatory epistle to Dr John Newton's The Scale of Interest (1668). ...Edward Pordage John NewtonThe Scale of Interest. Or ye Use of Decimal Fracti...Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from the English translation of A New Light of Alchymy (1674) by Michał Sędziwój (Sendi...Edward Pordage Michał SędziwójA New Light of Alchymy; Taken out of ye Fountain o...Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from the second edition of Samuel Chandler's An Impartial Account of the Portsmouth Disputation (...Edward Pordage Samuel ChandlerAn Impartial Account of the Portsmouth DisputationPrint: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from Thomas Vaughan's The Man-Mouse Taken in a Trap, and tortur'd to death for gnawing the margin...Edward Pordage Thomas VaughanThe Man-Mouse Taken in a Trap, and tortur'd to dea...Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Very extensive reading notes from the sixth edition of James Howell's Epistolę Ho-Elianę familiar letters, dome...Edward Pordage James HowellEpistolę Ho-Elianę familiar letters, domestic and ...Print: Book
1850-1899Inspection of the cells of the women in separate confinement: 'we found some working, and others reading, but none, strange to say, idling'.prisoners in separate confinement at Brixton Prison [unknown][unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899Inspection of the East Wing between 8:30pm and time of retirement: 'with their little wooden seats [they] placed themselves just within their doors, where they began read...prisoners in East Wing at Brixton Prison [unknown][unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815): 'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [italics]a capital work[end italics], written with great...Isaac D'Israeli Helen Maria WilliamsNarrative of Events in France in 1815Print: Book
1800-1849Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815): 'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [italics]a capital work[end italics], written with great...Isaac D'Israeli Helen Maria WilliamsNarrative of Events in France in 1815Print: Book
1800-1849Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (December 1815): 'I find myself, this morning, so strangely affected by the perusal of the poem last night, that I feel it is one whic...Isaac D'Israeli George Gordon Lord ByronThe Siege of CorinthManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray, 2 August 1810: 'I took the Q[uarterly]. R[eview]. with me. I like it well; and I do think it is far better than what you imagined it to...Isaac Disraeli Quarterly Review (no. 5)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray, 4 August 1818: 'It was with your usual kindness that you sent us the "Heart of Midlothian," which we return with our best thanks. All t...Isaac D'Israeli and familyWalter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray, 4 August 1818: 'Mr. Stewart [Mr. Murray's clerk] has been so attentive as to send me down the Observer, without which I should scarcely...Isaac D'Israeli The ObserverPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Isabella sent me, from Croft, the Globe + Traveller of last Friday, containing the account of the death of Lord Byron [...] Who admiredhim as a man? yet 'he is gone forev...Anne Lister The Globe and TravellerPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945It is 1,000 pities the 'Express' didn’t get the Wells Washington stuff. His first 3 articles in the 'Mail' have been absolutely tremendous. Arnold Bennett Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945It is a huge citadel, nearly a mile in length I should guess, on a low and stony ridge going east and west [...] the inscription is inside the southern gateway and ...Freya Stark Anon Anon[unknown Sabaean inscription at Naqb al-Hajar]Unknown
1900-1945It is amusing to find him writing to Sturt, in 1900, to persuade him that it would be a good idea to try to sell 'Bettesworth' to Pearson's (a firm for which he was not a...Arnold Bennett George Sturt The Bettesworth BookManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849It is long since I told you that I had begun Wallace, and that foreign studies had cast him into the shade. The same causes still obstruct my progress You will perhaps ...Thomas Carlyle William Wallace'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1900-1945It was after our second family holiday in the West Highlands of Scotland, when I was thirteen, that someone recommended that we should all read 'The Flight of the Heron' ...Patricia Beer D.K. BrosterThe Flight of the HeronPrint: Book


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