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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'And read very seriously my vowes, which I am fearful of forgetting by my late great expenses - but I hope in God I do not. And so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1500-1599'and reed of Granhame tell supper time'Margaret Hoby Richard Greenham[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and she being gone, I to my chamber to read a little again, and then after supper to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so a little at the office and home, to read a little and to supper and bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so after dinner, by water home, all the way going and coming reading "Faber fortunae", which I can never read too often.'Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunaePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so after some reading in Rushworth, home to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys John RushworthHistorical CollectionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so after supper and reading a little, and my wife's cutting off my hair short, which is grown too long upon the crown of my head, I to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so after supper to read and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so away back home again, reading all the way the book of the Collection of Oaths in the several offices in this nation, which is worth a man's reading' Samuel Pepys Richard GarnetThe book of oaths ... very useful for all persons ...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so away home by water, with more and more pleasure every time, I reading over my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae".'Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunaePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so away presently very merry, and fell to reading of the several "Advices to a Painter", which made us good sport; and endeed are very witty'Samuel Pepys Andrew MarvellThe second and third advice to a painter, for draw...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so away to my Bezan again - and there to read in a pretty French book, "La Nouvelle Allegorique", upon the strife between Rhetorique and its enemies - very pleasant....Samuel Pepys Antoine FuretiereNouvelle Allegorique, ou Histoire des derniers tro...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so away, back by water home, and after dinner got my wife to read'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so back home again, all the way reading a little piece I lately bought, call[ed] "The Virtuoso or The Stoicke", proposing many things paradoxicall to our common opin...Samuel Pepys George MackenzieReligio Stoici, with a friendly addresse to the ph...Print: Book
1600-1699'And so back to my chamber, the boy to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so by coach home; and there, having this day bought the "Queene of Arragon" play, I did get my wife and W Batelier to read it over this night by 11 a-clock, and so t...Elizabeth Pepys William HabingtonThe Queene of ArragonPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so by coach home; and there, having this day bought the "Queene of Arragon" play, I did get my wife and W Batelier to read it over this night by 11 a-clock, and so t...William Batelier William HabingtonThe Queene of ArragonPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home and did get my wife to read to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and there to read and my wife to read to me out of Sir Rob Cotton's book about Warr; which is very fine, showing how the Kings of England have raised money h...Elizabeth Pepys Sir Robert CottonAn answer to such motives as were offer'd by certa...Print: Book
1600-1699'And so home and there to the office a little; and thence to my chamber to read and supper, and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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