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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Benjamin Pitts CapperA Topographical Dictionary of the United KingdomPrint: Book
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1800-1849		The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I...Earl of Lonsdale Arthur YoungA Tour in IrelandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Thought the following remarks in Miss Williams was exceeding applicable to the manufacturers of Sheffield: "There is a spirit in that class, in all countries more favour...Joseph Hunter Helen Maria WilliamsA Tour in SwitzerlandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Miss Williams "Tour" is very entertaining; besides describing the scenery (which she does in a masterly manner) she gives short sketches of the government of the differe...Joseph Hunter Helen Maria WilliamsA Tour in SwitzerlandPrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of which I have been reading lately': 'Alfieri's "L...Fanny Kemble Washington IrvingA Tour on the PrairiesPrint: Book
1700-1799"Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France," D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote in March 1796."Dorothy Wordsworth Patrick BrydoneA Tour through Siciliy and Malta in a Series of Le...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday April 23rd. [...] Read Brydone's Letters [...] from Sicily. [...] 'Monday April 24 [...] Read Brydone's Letters from Sicily & Malta which are most delightfu...Claire Clairmont Patrick BrydoneA Tour through Sicily and Malta. In a Series of L...Print: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am in bed with the usual temperature [...] I moon torpid...Virginia Woolf Daniel DefoeA Tour through the Whole Island of Great BritainPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes and marginalia throughout book, including the thoughts of Sir George Otto Trevelyan on visiting the grave who had died young while climbing p.425.George Otto Trevelyan Mark TwainA tramp abroadPrint: Book
1800-1849'Brought...a translation of the Greek, Latin, French and Italian quotations in the "Pursuits of Literature" which I had rather felt the want of in pursuing the work... I ...Joseph Hunter Thomas MathiasA Translation of the Passages from Greek, Latin, F...Print: Book
1900-1945'Sun. Nil. Read A Trap to Catch a Dream.'William Thomas Dion Clayton CalthropA Trap to Catch a DreamPrint: Book
1700-1799'My fears shook my weak and tender frame in reading Edwards on the Affections. A heartsearching book. A truly valuable author'Arabella Davies Jonathan EdwardsA Treatise Concerning Religious AffectionsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the Introduction to Berkeley's "Principles of Human Knowledge", in which he really seems to be serious and in earnest...'Thomas Green George BerkeleyA treatise concerning the principles of human know...Print: Book
1800-1849'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It occurred to me, much about the same time, that it w...Thomas Carlyle Thomas SimpsonA Treatise of FluxionsPrint: Book
1500-1599'and then reed of Bright of Mallincocolie, and then went to supper'Margaret Hoby Timothy BrightA treatise of melancholie, containing the causes t...Print: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]: pp.31-61 are heavily annotated - the only clue to the identity of the annotator is in the ink - it is the colour used by Will. Baillie (see section 1.5). T...Will Baillie Leonardo Da VinciA Treatise of PaintingPrint: Book
1600-1699'they lent me Mr Gee's booke concerninge prayer; he was minister at Eccleston. And upon the 15th day, Tusday, I was readinge in his booke, and in consideracion of the man...Roger Lowe Edward GeeA Treatise of Prayer and of Divine Providence as r...Print: Book
1600-1699'And so went home, taking Mr Leigh with me; and after drunk a cup of wine, he went away and I to my office, there reading in Sir W Pettys book, and so home - and to bed'Samuel Pepys [anon]A treatise of taxes and contributionsPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, two couplets from Edward Reynolds, 'A Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the Soule of Man'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Edward ReynoldsA Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the So...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Patrick ColquhounA Treatise on IndigencePrint: Book


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