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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799?As during my confinement I amused myself with light reading, I now for the 1st time read the "Spiritual Quixote" (w?th which I was much entertain?d) & other books of the...John Marsh Richard GravesThe spiritual Quixote: or the summer's ramble of M...Print: Book
1700-1799?Being now became a constant attendant of the gent?n ringers once or twice a week, I ? began to aspire towards ringing a longer peal, for w?ch purpose I wrote the changes...John Marsh members of the Society of London Scholars, J.D. and C.M. Campanologia improved; or, the Art of ringing made...Print: Book
1700-1799?On our coming home & Candles being brought in he took up a volume of "Clarissa Harlowe" (w?ch we happen?d then all to be reading) but having sat about 10 minutes without...John Marsh Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday the 10th. I began reading Burret's "Theory of the Earth", w'ch I found in my library, in w'ch I soon became so interested that I devoted the whole of every ev...John Marsh Thomas BurnettTheory of the EarthPrint: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday the 30th. I began reading for the 1st time Anson's "Voyage round the World", w'th which I was much amused and interested.'John Marsh Richard WalterAnson's Voyage round the WorldPrint: Book
1700-1799'The "Lounger" a new publication being a book now pretty much read, we at this time got it from Humphrey's library & Miss White and I began reading the diff't numbers of ...John Marsh [n/a]The LoungerPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'The next morning I took a ride to Stoke where Lady Louisa show'd me a paragraph she had cut out of the "Star", reflecting on the Dean for refusing the cathedral for the ...John Marsh [n/a]Star, ThePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Paine's "Rights of Man, or Answer to Burke" being now lately come out & much talked of, we got it in our society and on Monday the 25th. I began reading it, but was much...John Marsh Thomas PaineRights of ManPrint: Book
1700-1799'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on Monday the 15th began making a planetorium upon a st...John Marsh James FergusonHis Astronomy explained on Sir Isaac Newton's Prin...Print: Book
1700-1799'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on Monday the 15th began making a planetorium upon a st...John Marsh John BonnycastleAn introduction to astronomyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls of w'ch were about a yard thick & the windows very s...John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss WhiteCharlotte SmithCelestinaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls of w'ch were about a yard thick & the windows very s...John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss WhiteTobias SmollettThe expedition of Humphrey ClinkerPrint: Book
1700-1799'On the Sunday follow'g (9th) ... we first heard a rumour of the massacre of the prisoners on the 2d & 3d at Paris, the melancholic details of which we read in the next m...John Marsh [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'In the afternoon, Mrs M & I walked to the quay hotel etc. where we met Mrs Hening of Chichester who was staying in lodgings at Littlehampton. We however found it so cold...Miss PilkingtonRosinaPrint: Book
1700-1799'On this day I began reading Darwin's "Zoonomia", w'ch I had lately proposed in the Book Society.'John Marsh Erasmus DarwinZoonomiaPrint: Book
1700-1799'On this day I finis'd Sullivan's "View of Nature" w'ch I had from the Library Society from w'ch & from the Book Society we were now finish'd with as many books as we co'...John Marsh Sir Richard Joseph SullivanA View of nature, in Letters to a Traveller among ...Print: Book
1700-1799'On the next day (Tuesday 31st) I went to Canterbury in the coach & on the same evening in the diligence to Dover where I amused myself with reading "Herman of Unna" (a t...John Marsh C B E NaubertHermann of UnnaPrint: Book
1700-1799'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte...John Marsh Ann RadcliffeA Sicilian RomancePrint: Book
1700-1799'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte...Elizabeth Marsh William JacksonThirty letters on various subjectsPrint: Book
1700-1799'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte...John Marsh Carl Philipp MoritzTravels of a German through England in 1782Print: Book


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