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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'Up earely; and after reading a little in Cicero, I made me ready and to my office - where all the morning busy.'Samuel Pepys Cicero[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'At noon my physic having done working, I went down to dinner. And then he [Mr Creede] and I up again and spent the most of the afternoon reading in Cicero and other book...Samuel Pepys Cicero[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'As an extraordinary instance of perseverance, I must mention my having read "Cicero de officiis". You must read it too Bob - You will get thro' it in a week - and cannot...Thomas Carlyle CiceroDe OfficiisPrint: Book
1800-1849'But the book I am most pleased with is "Cicero de Finibus" - not that there is much new discussion in it, but his manner is so easy and elegant; and, besides, there is s...Thomas Carlyle CiceroDe Finibus Bonorum et MalorumPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Cicero "De Senectute": a most exquisite and finished disquisition...'Thomas Green CiceroDe SenectutePrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked into Cicero's "Buruts"...'Thomas Green CiceroBrutusPrint: Book
1800-1849But the book I am most pleased with is 'cicero de Finibus' - not that there is much new discussion in it, but his manner is so easy and elegant; and, besides, there is su...Thomas Carlyle CiceroDe FinibusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Rights of woman - Opuscula of Cicero'Mary Godwin Cicero[Opuscula - Minor Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Locke and Chesterfield - De Senectute and the wanderer'Mary Godwin CiceroDe SenectutePrint: Book
1800-1849'read the Wanderer - read de Senectute & Chesterfield'Mary Godwin Cicerode SenectutePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random'Mary Shelley CiceroDe RepublicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read & finish Junius - finish Somnium Scipionis - work read amadis'Mary Shelley CiceroDe RepublicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Junius - Somnium Scipionis & work - read Amadis of Gaul'Mary Shelley CiceroDe RepublicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'First Oration of Cicero'Mary Shelley Cicero[First Oration]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish 1st Oration of Cicero - & the 3 book of Lucretius'Mary Shelley Cicero[First Oration]Print: Book
1800-1849'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd'Mary Shelley Cicero[Second Oration]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish the oration for Roscius amerinus'Mary Shelley CiceroPro Roscio AmerinoPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd'Mary Shelley CiceroPro Roscio ComoedoPrint: Book
1800-1849'First oration of Verres. Hist of Engd.'Mary Shelley CiceroActio prima in VerremPrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		" ... the crypto-Jacobite virtuoso John Byrom used laudanum to treat his sister, Ellen, after noting that she had been 'disturbed' by reading Clarendon. The treatment pr...Ellen Clarendon Print: Book


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