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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Monday. 16 February 1829: 'Went to the Royal Society. There Sir William Hamilton read an Essay, the result of some anatomical investigations, which containd a maskd ba...Sir William Hamilton Sir William Hamilton'On the size of the brain and the proportion of it...Unknown
1800-1849'Did you read Sir W Hamilton on Cousin's Metaphysics in the last Edinburgh Review? And what inferences are we to draw from it? Pity that Sir W. had not the gift of deli...Thomas Carlyle Sir William HamiltonReview of Victor Cousin's 'Cours de Philosophie' (...Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1800-1849then pitied me [my father] for the ten-mile stage I had to go alone, but I did not pity myself, for I had Sir William Jones's and Sir William Chambers's Asiatic Miscellan...Maria Edgeworth Sir William JonesAsiatic Miscellany. pieces and extracts from vario...Print: Book
1800-1849"... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W...Frances Power Cobbe Sir William JonesInstitutes of MenuPrint: Book
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)Sir William Jones Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913: 'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles & Recollections of an Indian Official? It is a charming book to read in, but the ...Edward Morgan Forster Sir William SleemanRambles and Recollections of an Indian OfficialPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913: 'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official? It is a charming book to read in, but th...E. M. Forster Sir William SleemanRambles and Recollections of an Indian OfficialPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir William StewartOutlines of a Plan for the General Reform of the B...Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on research for a story on Bills of Exchange to be set either in Holland or South America: 'I thought Holland on the whole the more convenient of the t...Harriet Martineau Sir William Temple[work on Holland]Print: Book
1700-1799'Read, in the evening, "Temple on the Origin of Government:" in which the source of political power is successfully traced....' [Green usually gives extensive summary co...Thomas Green Sir William TempleEssaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunition, and explosives etc., etc., littering my table, to...Donald William Alers Hankey Sir William Francis Patrick NapierHistory of the War in the PeninsularPrint: Book
1900-1945'Am reading "King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse", which is really glorious.'Hilary Spalding Sister BlackKing's Nurse, Beggar's NursePrint: Book
1800-1849Wordsworth to Alexander Dyce, 22 June 1830, on 'exceedingly pleasing' poem by Sneyd Davies: 'It begins "There was a time my dear Cornwallis, when" I first met with it in...William Wordsworth Sneyd DaviesAgainst Indolence. An EpistlePrint: Book
1700-1799'[a young man] Mr Allen - resolved to take Orders and made proper Application: The Bishop asked him of course what he had read. why but little replied he to be sure, for ...Mr Allen Soame JenningsFree Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of EvilPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Soame Jenyns' "Origin of Evil". His grand solution of the introduction of evil is, that it could not have been prevented, by Omnipotence, without the loss of some ...Thomas Green Soame JenynsA free inquiry into the nature and origin of evilPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished the two first Volumes of Soame Jenyns "Works", edited by Cole...'Thomas Green Soame JenynsThe works of Soame Jenyns, EsqPrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";--JOHNSON. "I think it a pretty book; not very theolo...Samuel Johnson Soame JenynsView of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Rel...Print: Book
1700-1799'Dr. Mayo having asked Johnson's opinion of Soame Jenyns's "View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion";--JOHNSON. "I think it a pretty book; not very theolo...James Boswell Soame JenynsView of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Rel...Print: Book
1850-1899'And with that, dismissing the subject, I dived again into the unplumbed depths of the "Penny Cyclopaedia"'.Edmund Gosse Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge The Penny CyclopaediaPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Later on, a publication called the "Penny Cyclopaedia" became my daily, and for a long time almost my sole study...'Edmund Gosse Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge The Penny CyclopaediaPrint: Book


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