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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 Jean-Fran?ois de Galaup de la PerouseVoyage de la Perouse autour du mondePrint: Book
1700-1799'I am glad you were pleased with Clery. As I have succeeded in one recommendation, I will take the liberty of making another, and advise you to buy Count Rumford's Essays...[Mrs] Beach CleryJournalPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am glad you were pleased with Clery. As I have succeeded in one recommendation, I will take the liberty of making another, and advise you to buy Count Rumford's Essays...Sydney Smith Benjamin Thomson, Count von RumfordEssays, Political, Economical and PhilosophicalPrint: Book
1700-1799'You should read Cle account of the treatment of Louis 16th; it is well written'. [words in <> obliterated by water]Sydney Smith CleryJournalPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Parr's sermon and tell me how you like it. I think it dull, with occasional passages of Eloquence. His notes are very entertaining. You will find in them a great co...Sydney Smith Samuel Parr'Spital Sermon'Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799[John Locke] "says it [is the] same faculty that invents judges".William Blake John LockeunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799"And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That the Muse visits his Slumbers & awakes & governs his So...William Blake John MiltonParadise Lost, vii, 29-30Print: Book
1700-1799"And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That the Muse visits his Slumbers & awakes & governs his So...William Blake Numbers 24:13Print: Book
1700-1799"I name Moses, Solomon, Esop, Homer, Plato". [Blake is referring to a selection of influential authors/characters from the Bible and classical literature]William Blake BiblePrint: Book, Unknown
1700-1799"What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of Art? Why is the Bible more Entertaining and Instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are add...William Blake HomerunknownPrint: Book, Unknown
1700-1799"Consider what Lord Bacon says: 'Sense sends over to Imagination before Reason have judged...See Advancement of Learning, Part 2, P.47 of first Edition".William Blake Francis BaconAdvancement of Learning, Part 2, P.47Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 12 June 1796: 'Have you read Fawcetts Art of War? with all the faults of Young it possesses more beauties — & is in many...Robert Southey Joseph FawcettThe Art of WarPrint: Book
1700-1799Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.15, p.25, p.142; V.2 p.200. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile this summer, nor yet read a...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1700-1799Anne Grant to Miss Harriet Reid, April 28 1773: 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile this summer, nor yet read any book but the Bible and Night Thoughts*; even th...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'I returned to my friend's chambers and we read some of Mr Addison's papers in "The Spectator" with infinite relish'James Boswell Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In my younger years I had read in the "Lives of the Convicts" so much about Tyburn that I had a sort of horrid eagerness to be there' James Boswell [unknown]Lives of the convictsPrint: Book, Pamphlet
1700-1799'At night at home, I read the Church service by myself with great devotion'James Boswell [n/a][Church service]Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 24 May, 1796: 'The reliance that I can place on my own application renders me little anxious for the future — & for the pr...Robert Southey Virgil AeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799'I then got "The North Briton" and read it at Child's. I shall do so now every Saturday evening'James Boswell [n/a]The North BritonPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Letter II to Miss Harriet Reid of Glasgow, April 28 1773 '?he shewed so much ingenuity in discovering faults in every thing, that I burst out a laughing, and said we were...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Laurence SterneSentimental JourneyPrint: Book


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