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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Finished Voltaire's "Siecle de Louis 14me.": a most entertaining and instructive work...'Thomas Green VoltaireEssay sur l?histoire du siecle de Louis XIVPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Athenian Letters"...'Thomas Green Philip YorkeAthenian LettersPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Travels of Anacharsis". This work is ably executed, and must have cost prodigious pains; but it still leaves us, as we must ever be left, extremely ignora...Thomas Green J. J. Barth?lemyTravels of Anacharsis the Younger in GreecePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Horace Walpole's "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard the 3d."--doubts, which he has in some measure transfused into my mind...'Thomas Green Horace WalpoleHistoric doubts on the life and reign of King Rich...Print: Book
1700-1799'Looked over Horace Walpole's "Fugitive Pieces"...'Thomas Green Horace WalpoleWorksPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the "Paradise Regained". Milton has been most unhappy in the choice of his subject;--an inexplicable and suspicious legend...'Thomas Green John MiltonParadise RegainedPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Milton's "Samson Agonistes";--a noble Poem, but a miserable Drama...'Thomas Green John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Perused, with delight and admiration, Mackintosh's "Preliminary Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations"...'Thomas Green Sir James MackintoshA discourse on the study of the law of nature, and...Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished Tasso's "Jerusalem", in Hoole's Translation comparing it occasionally with the original, and with Fairfax's version...'Thomas Green Torquato TassoJerusalem DeliveredPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over a Volume of "Lettres Choisies de Mesdames Sevigne et Maintenon"...'Thomas Green Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise S?vignLettres choisies de Mesdames de Sevign? et de MainPrint: Book
1700-1799'Began Burnet's "Theory of the Earth". Nothing can exceed the dexterity, or liveliness, or picturesque force, of his reasoning...'Thomas Green Thomas BurnetThe theory of the earthPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read with much interest, in a Collection of Fugitive Pieces, an "Introduction to the Theory of the Human Mind", by J. Usher, author of Clio....'Thomas Green James UssherAn introduction to the theory of the human mindPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Mackinosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae". His style and manner in the Piece are magnificent, but uniformly cumbrous, and occasionally coarse...'Thomas Green Sir James MackintoshVindiciae GallicaePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Soame Jenyns' "Origin of Evil". His grand solution of the introduction of evil is, that it could not have been prevented, by Omnipotence, without the loss of some ...Thomas Green Soame JenynsA free inquiry into the nature and origin of evilPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Gibbon's "Essai sur l'Etude de la Litterature": an ostentatious performance...'Thomas Green Edward GibbonEssai sur l??tude de la litt?raturePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Lord Bacon's Letters, edited by Birch. It is grievous to see this great man, who appears from various passages fully sensible of his vast powers and attainment...Thomas Green Francis BaconLetters, speeches, charges, advices, &c. of Franci...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read the 1st Book of Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity"...'Thomas Green Edward HookerOf the laws of ecclesiastical politiePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Hurd's "Lectures on the Prophecies"...'Thomas Green Richard HurdAn introduction to the study of the propheciesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Bishop Shipley's Works; to the reading of which I had been powerfully recommended by M-h. A vein of good sense, expressed in an original, unaffected, and frequ...Thomas Green Jonathan ShipleyThe works of the Right Reverend Jonathan ShipleyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the first Vol. of Hurd's "Sermons at Lincoln's-Inn"...'Thomas Green Richard HurdSermons preached at Lincoln?s-InnPrint: Book


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