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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were Hervey's "Meditations", "The Pilgrim's Progress", a...Thomas Carter [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were Hervey's "Meditations", "The Pilgrim's Progress", a...Thomas Carter John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1700-1799'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were Hervey's "Meditations", "The Pilgrim's Progress", a...Thomas Carter James HerveyMeditations among the tombs; in a letter to a ladyPrint: Book
1700-1799'About this time I also gained the good-will of an aged woman who sold cakes, sweetmeals, and fruit, and was moreover a dealer in little books...I had even then a taste f...Thomas Carter [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1700-1799'Among these books was a brief abstract of that amusing story "Robinson Crusoe", which I read with much eagerness and satisfaction. I only regretted its brevity, for I be...Thomas Carter Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1700-1799'Another book which thus came in my way was Mrs Barbauld's "Hymns for Children" which I soon perceived to be exactly suited both to my taste and my capacity. Here I met w...Thomas Carter Anna Letitia BarbauldHymns in Prose for ChildrenPrint: Book
1700-1799'It was about this time that I first met with Milton's "Paradise Lost", in a thick volume with engravings and copious notes, probably a copy of Bishop Newton's edition of...Thomas Carter John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]: a page of ms notes on the first binding page gives nautical instructions 'The course by the Compass From Buchaness to Fair Isle is NNE or .... Dist. 32 leag...William Ferguson AnonGeneral treatise of naval trade and commerce, as f...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'In the interim you shall have the remarks that occurrd upon reading Sir Launcelot Greaves on the road. B...Robert Southey Tobias SmollettThe Adventures of Humphry ClinkerPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'In the interim you shall have the remarks that occurrd upon reading Sir Launcelot Greaves on the road. B...Robert Southey Tobias SmollettThe Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves Print: Book
1700-1799'During the first half year I was at this school Mr Gibson got Moliere's plays for me in 10 vols., French and English, which I afterwards used to construe with Mr Suine. ...John Marsh Jean-Baptiste Poquelin[plays]Print: Book
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh John CampbellThe Universal HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh Rapin de ThoyrasHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh John DrydenVirgil's husbandry; or, An essay on the GeorgicsPrint: Book
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh VoltaireHistoire de Charles XIIPrint: Book
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh Francois FenelanLes Aventures de TelemaquePrint: Book
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh Alain Rene le SageDiable BoiteauxPrint: Book
1700-1799?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ...John Marsh VirgilEneidPrint: Book
1700-1799?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s History of England, both for the 2d time over & in t...John Marsh William BlackstoneCommentaries on the laws of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s History of England, both for the 2d time over & in t...John Marsh Oliver GoldsmithHistory of England from the earliest times to the ...Print: Book


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