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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'I could also, with little trouble, turn over Knolles and Sir Paul Rycaut, to give you a list of Turkish Emperors'.Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Sir Paul RycautunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am more inclined, out of a true female spirit of contradiction, to tell you the falsehood of a great part of what you find in authors; as, for example, in the admirabl...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Mr HillunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tis true they have no public places but the bagnios...I was three days ago at one of the finest in the town, and had the opportunity of seeing a Turksih bride recieved t...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu TheocritusIdyll 18Unknown
1700-1799'But the Armenians have no notion of transubstantiation, whatever accounts Sir Paul Rycaut gives of them (which account I am apt to believe was designed to compliment our...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Sir Paul RycautunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'I can only tell you, that if you please to read Sir Paul Rycaut, you will there find a full and true account of the viziers, the [italics] beglerbeys [italics], the civi...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Sir Paul RycautunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'But I cannot forbear takng notice to you of a mistake of Gemelli (though I honour him in a much higher degree than any other voyage-writer): he says that there are no re...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu GemelliunknownUnknown
1700-1799'I begin with telling you, that you have a true notion of the Alcoran, concerning which, the Greek priests (who are the greatest scoundrels in the universe) have invented...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Qu'ranPrint: Book
1700-1799'One of my countrymen, Mr. Sandys (whose book I do not doubt you have read, as one of the best of its kind), speaking of these ruins, supposes them to have been the found...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Mr SandysUnknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'Strabo calls Carthage forty miles in circuit.'Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu StraboGeographicaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Whenever I read in St Paul's Epistle on justification by faith alone, my good mistress would read in the Epistle of St James, such passages as say that a man is not just...James Lackington BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'I often privately took the Bible to bed with me, and in the long summer mornings read for hours together in bed'.James Lackington BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'Since the publication of the first edition of these memoirs, I have read "The Memoirs of Mr. Tate Wilkinson" patentee of the Theatres Royal of York and Hull, and was muc...James Lackington Tate WilkinsonThe memoirs of Mr Tate WilkinsonPrint: Book
1700-1799'I also received great benefits from reading Coventry's Philemon to Hydaspes; it consists of dialogues on false religion, extravagant devotion, etc. in which are many ver...James Lackington Henry CoventryPhilemon to Hydaspes: or the history of false reli...Print: Book
1700-1799'I was one day called aside, and a hand-bill was given me; and thinking it to be a quack doctor's bill for a certain disease, I expressed my suprise at its being given to...James Lackington John Biggs[conversion narrative]Print: Handbill
1700-1799'There is a very extraordinary passage in Rousseau's Thoughts on Fanaticism. It is printed in his Thoughts, published by Debrett, Vol.i. page 11. Bayle (says he) has a...James Lackington Jean-Jacques RousseauThoughts of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Citizen of Gene...Print: Book
1700-1799'A much greater man than Rousseau says, "The only remedy for the infectious disease of Fanaticism, is a philosophical temper, which spreading through society, at length s...James Lackington Voltaire(possibly) The Philosophical Dictionary for the po...Print: Book
1700-1799"The following remarks made by the compilers of the Monthy Review for 1788, page 286, are so applicable to the present subject, that I hope my introducing the passage wil...James Lackington Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Should you, my dear friend, be desirous of perusing a variety of remedies, equally judicious as well as efficacious with those of Mr Wesley, you will meet with ample sat...James Lackington Antoine-Joseph PernetyThe History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkla...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read, in the evening, "Temple on the Origin of Government:" in which the source of political power is successfully traced....' [Green usually gives extensive summary co...Thomas Green Sir William TempleEssaysPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished, afterwards, "Gulliver's Travels". Could this severe satire....'Thomas Green Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book


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