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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place Adam SmithWealth of NationsPrint: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place John Locke Print: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place various [history]Print: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place various [voyages]Print: Book
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place various [politics and law]Print: Book
1800-1849The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feeling and my last Paper (with great estimation) in the...Margaret Carlyle Henry MackenzieThe Man of FeelingPrint: Book
1800-1849The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feeling and my last Paper (with great estimation) in the...Margaret Carlyle Thomas CarlyleState of German LiteraturePrint: Serial / periodical
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
1900-1945There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robson as Truewit.Charles I. Evans Ben JonsonEpicoene, or the Silent WomanUnknown
1900-1945There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robson as Truewit.George Burrow Ben JonsonEpicoene, or the Silent WomanUnknown
1900-1945There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robson as Truewit.Reginald H. Robson Ben JonsonEpicoene, or the Silent WomanUnknown
1900-1945There is a cold air coming off Labrador, but not so bad as Syria. The sea is grey, exactly the colour of the seagulls with the white under their wings...I have the ...Freya Stark HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1850-1899there is a leading article in the "Times" about New ZealandAlbert Battiscombe The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus. Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap: in the Bible, & then went out to walk in the dark.Elizabeth Barrett Antoninus Print: Book
1800-1849They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus. Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap: in the Bible, & then went out to walk in the dark.Elizabeth Barrett BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849They that cultivate literary small-talk have been greatly attracted for some / time by the late number of Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) Magazine. It contains many slan...Thomas Carlyle Blackwoods MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945This book has copious notes and marginal marks, including many unrelated to the text written on pastedown and fly-leaf: "I used to note down sentences for my history, tha...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe ambassadorsPrint: Book
1850-1899This book has marginal marks and dried acanthus leaves, with the MS note: "Acanthus leaves from Shelley's grave. Rome. Nov 21 1886". George Otto Trevelyan Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe poetical works of Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrint: Book
1850-1899This book, originally owned and read by Lord Macaulay in June-Oct 1836, was given to his nephew who wrote on flyleaf: "Given me when at Harrow, by Macaulay to prepare for...George Otto Trevelyan Martin MadanA new and literal translation of Juvenal and Perse...Print: Book
1850-1899This evening Charley has read to us the 12th No. of "Orley Farm", which is interesting so far as it pursues the main path of the story - the fortunes of Lady Mason'.Charles Lewes Anthony TrollopeOrley FarmPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown


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