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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]: several pencil annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by annotation in the...John Drummond Erskine HelvetiusA treatise on man, his intellectual faculties and ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge M LoeweA Treatise on the Phenomena of Animal MagnetismPrint: Book
1900-1945H. J. Jackson discusses second annotator of 1791 copy of Rousseau, A Treatise on the Social Compact; or, The Principles of Politic Law; ownership inscription in same hand...H. B. L. Webb Jean-Jacques RousseauA Treatise on the Social Compact; or, The Principl...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Francois Marie Arouet VoltaireA Treatise on TolerationPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas FullerA Triple ReconcilerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks for the press cuttings. The accident on board that ship was an extraordinary one.'Joseph Conrad W. A. H. MullA True Story: Loss and Record of the Wreck of the ...Print: Serial / periodical
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1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'A Turkish Prayer or Alhemdolilla'.Elizabeth Lyttelton AnonA Turkish Prayer or AlhemdolillaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am altogether under the charm of that book ["A Vanished Arcadia"] in accord with its spirit and full of admiration for its expression.'Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA Vanished ArcadiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading again the "[A] Vanished Arcadia" - from the dedication, so full of charm, to the last paragraph with its ironic aside about the writers of books "pro...Joseph Conrad R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame GrahamA Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesu...Print: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Extensive reading notes from Robert Ferguson's A View of an Ecclesiastick in his Socks & Buskins (1698). ...Edward Pordage Robert FergusonA View of an Ecclesiastick in his Socks & Buskins,...Print: 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
1800-1849'Looked over the Introduction to Pemberton's "View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy". He affirms (sec. 2.) that it is the gratification of our taste, which is the source...Thomas Green Henry PembertonA view of Sir Isaac Newton?s philosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849'"Blessings on his head said Sancho Panza who first invented sleep", But what shall we say of the character of the French which I lately saw in "Moor's France"...'Robert Sharp John MooreA View of Society and Manners in France, SwitzerlaPrint: Book
1600-1699'after dinner I and my boy down by water to Redriffe; and thence walked to Mr Evelin's, where I walked in his garden till he came from church, with great pleasure reading...Samuel Pepys Sir Thomas RidleyA view of the civile and ecclesiasticall lawPrint: Book
1600-1699'Walked back again, reading of my civil law book.'Samuel Pepys Sir Thomas RidleyA view of the civile and ecclesiasticall lawPrint: Book
1600-1699'I walked both going and coming, spending my time in reading of my Civill and Ecclesiastical law-book.'Samuel Pepys Sir Thomas RidleyA view of the civile and ecclesiasticall lawPrint: Book
1800-1849'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr [.] His "View of the English Stage" is not so good a...John Clare William HazlittA View of the English StagePrint: Book
1800-1849'In order to pass the BA examination, it was also necessary to get up Paley's "Evidences of Christianity" and his "Moral Philosophy". This was done in a thorough manner, ...Charles Darwin William PaleyA View of the Evidences of ChristianityPrint: Book
1800-1849'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Pal...James Lackington William PaleyA View of the Evidences of ChristianityPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Daniel WaterlandA Vindication of Christ's DivinityPrint: Book


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