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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'Finished a review of Cicero's tract "De Officiis"...' Thomas Green [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Read Cicero "De Senectute": a most exquisite and finished disquisition...'Thomas Green CiceroDe SenectutePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the first 6 chapters of May's "History of the Long Parliament"; containing a retrospect of affairs, down to its assembling...'Thomas Green Thomas MayThe history of the Parliament of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Dryden's Dedication to his "Translations of Juvenal's Satires":--a stranger, rambling composition...'Thomas Green John DrydenThe satires of Juvenalis, translated into EnglishPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Richardson's "Philosophical Analysis" of some of Shakespear's Characters. The design is happy, and, upon the whole, ingeniously executed...'Thomas Green William RichardsonA philosophical analysis and illustration of some ...Print: Book
1700-1799'Read Cambridge's "Scribleriad". The mock heroic is well sustained throughout; but the Poem is deficient in broad humour...'Thomas Green Richard Owen CambridgeThe scribleriad: an heroic poem in six booksPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the perusal of Blair's "Lectures on Rhetoric". The praise of ingenuity, of a judgment in general correct, and a taste for the most part timidly correct, I can ...Thomas Green Hugh BlairLectures on rhetoric and belles lettresPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Jackson's (of Exeter) "Four Ages". He inverts the usual order; and promises halycon days, from the improvement of every art and every science, in the golden age to ...Thomas Green William Jackson of ExeterThe four ages; together with essays on various sub...Print: Book
1700-1799'Looked through the 3d. Book of Warburton's "Divine Legation". It is impossible to pursue this eccentric Genius steadily, through the mazy curves along which he wheels h...Thomas Green William WarburtonThe divine legation of Moses demonstratedPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Balguy's "Discourses". They are all masterly; but the first four, and the 8th, tower above the rest in excellence...'Thomas Green Thomas BalguyDiscourses on various subjectsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the 1st Vol. of Sully's "Memoirs". They open a scene of manners, which, to modern conception, appears perfectly romantic...'Thomas Green Pierre MathurinThe memoirs of the Duke of SullyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over the 1st and 2d Parts of Watts' "Logic"...'Thomas Green Isaac WattsLogic, or the right use of reasonPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Reid May 17,1773 'As far as a mountain can resemble a man, it resembles the person Smollet has marked out by the name of Captain Gawky.'Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1700-1799Reader makes 4 references to Gray's works V.1 p.73 (Ode to adversity), p. 91 (The progress of poesy); v.2 p.55 (The fatal sisters),; v.3 p. 59 (On a distant prospect of E...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Thomas Gray[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing, November 14, 1778 '? the former [ie Highlanders] indeed are a people never to be known unless you live among them, and learn their language. Smollet...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Tobias SmollettThe expedition of Humphrey ClinkerPrint: Book
1700-1799Reader makes 4 references to the work V.1 pp 61,64; V.2 pp 4, 251. Eg. p. 61 'The sun shone on our social repast, but when we set out, Eolus did not perform the task Thom...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] James ThomsonThe seasonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'On the appearance of Mr Wilson's "Isle of Palms", I was so greatly taken with many of his fanciful and visionary scenes, descriptive of bliss and woe, that it had a tend...James Hogg John WilsonIsle of Palms, and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1700-1799'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgeworth - [italics] Edgeworth on Practical Education [end ...Sydney Smith George VancouverA Voyage Of Discovery To The North Pacific Ocean A...Print: Book
1700-1799'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgeworth - [italics] Edgeworth on Practical Education [end ...Sydney Smith Richard Lovell AND Maria EdgeworthPractical EducationPrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr Rennel has published two or three Sermons lately which I would advise you to buy: they are written in a style of fine animated declamation. The Bishop of London's hav...Sydney Smith Thomas Rennel [ed.][Sermons]Print: Unknown


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