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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Read Haslam on Insanity....'Thomas Green John HaslamObservations on InsanityPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over Godwin's "Memoirs of Mrs. Woolstonecraft"; which strikingly evince that love, even in a modern philosopher, "emollit mores, nec sinet esse feros"...'Thomas Green William GodwinMemoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Righ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read Shaftesbury's "Enquiry concerning Virtue". His ideas are not very distinctly state; but he seems, to place Virtue in a proper management of the affections...'Thomas Green Anthony Ashley CooperInquiry concerning VirtuePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Sir Joshua Reynolds' "Discourses", with an eye to a peculiar and distinguishing doctrine which runs through the whole, and is manifestly a particular favourite ...Thomas Green Joshua ReynoldsSeven DiscoursesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...'Thomas Green Bernard MandevilleFable of the BeesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...'Thomas Green Bernard MandevilleEnquiry into the Origin of VirtuePrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over Johnson's vigorous defence of Shakespear against the charge of violating, whether from neglect or disdain, the Unities of Time and Place in his Dramas...'Thomas Green Samuel JohnsonPreface to ShakespearePrint: Book
1700-1799'Dipped into Bacon's "Essays"; so pregnant with just, original, and striking observations on every topic which is touched, that I cannot select what pleases me most...'Thomas Green Francis BaconEssaysPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Brown's "Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times". The 2d Vol. is merely a supplementary comment on the 1st; and in that, after allowing us a spirit of...Thomas Green John BrownAn estimate of the manners and principles of the t...Print: Book
1700-1799'Looked over "Serious Reflections by a rational Christian", from 1788 to 1798 written by the Duke of G-...'Thomas Green Augustus Henry FitzroyThe serious reflections of a rational ChristianPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over Lord Chesterfield's "Characters": all of which are neatly, and some very finely, drawn...'Thomas Green Philip Dormer StanhopeCharacters of eminent personages of his own timePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the 1st Volume and Part of "Du Bos sur la Poesie et Peinture"...'Thomas Green Jean-Baptiste DubosCritical reflections on poetry, painting and musicPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Burke's "Vindication of Natural Society". Except in parts (as in the opening and ending) I cannot think that this piece has much of Bolingbroke's style and manner....Thomas Green Edmund BurkeVindication of Natural SocietyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished a cursory perusal of Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", with a view to the principles on which his critical decisions are founded...'Thomas Green Samuel JohnsonLives of the PoetsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Examined, with a view to those principles, Addison's Eleven Papers in the "Spectator"; beginning at No. 409, and with the omission of the 410th, ending with the 421st. ...Thomas Green Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Burke's Disquisition prefixed to his "Sublime and Beautiful"...'Thomas Green Edmund BurkeA philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ide...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read the first four Books of Montesquieu's "Esprit des Loix"...'Thomas Green MontesquieuDe l?esprit des loixPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked into Mitford's "History of Greece". The Athenian Democracy imparts no sort of relish for that sort of government...'Thomas Green William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the first five chapters of Reid's "Enquiry into the Human Mind": in which he examines the senses of Smell, Taste, Hearing, and Touch...'Thomas Green Thomas ReidAn inquiry into the human mindPrint: 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


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