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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John HallAn Humble Motion to the Parliament of EnglandPrint: Book
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1700-1799		Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, (anon) 'An Hymne to our Redeemer'. Copied in spaces between other entries in the commonplace book. Lyttelton signals the conti...Elizabeth Lyttelton anonAn Hymne to our RedeemerUnknown
1850-1899'Now I only want to say that "An Imagined World " charmed my eyes with a charm of its own-distinc[t]ly.'Joseph Conrad Edward GarnettAn Imagined WorldPrint: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Reading notes from the second edition of Samuel Chandler's An Impartial Account of the Portsmouth Disputation (...Edward Pordage Samuel ChandlerAn Impartial Account of the Portsmouth DisputationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Not many miles away to the left lies Landrecies, which R. L. Stevenson refers to, in "An Inland Voyage," as, "a point in the great warfaring system of Europe which might...Ian Vivian Hay Robert Louis StevensonAn Inland VoyagePrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over Malone's "Enquiry into the Authenticity of Ireland's Shakesperian Papers"; a learned and decisive piece of criticism...'Thomas Green Edmond MaloneAn inquiry into the authenticity of certain papersPrint: 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
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 30 October -7 November 1793: 'In this interval however my baggage has arrived & no poor devil at the foot of the gallows was more overj...Robert Southey Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 3-4 November 1793: 'I am reading Adam Smith on the Wealth of Nations.'Robert Southey Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'Rose at 7 [...] Sat reading Smith's "Wealth of Nations" until 8.'George Grote Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on ...George Grote Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on ...George Grote Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Smith's "Wealth of Nations" in evening: the most naive assumption of Nature that ever was'John Ruskin Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 8. Read once again the "Dissertation on Virtue" which is subjoined to Butler...George Grote Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1800-1849'Looked into Whitehurst's "Theory of the Earth". His hypothesis is, That our globe was originally a confused mass of all the elements; That from gravitation and elective...Thomas Green John WhitehurstAn inquiry into the original state and formation o...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: some marginal and text pencil annotations to pp 408-438 only, e.g: p. 408 'Prop.1 Prices are in proportion to the plenty of money ...' has a vertical margi...John Drummond Erskine James SteuartAn inquiry into the principles of political oecono...Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence by coach, and falling by the way at my bookseller's for a book, writ about twenty years ago in prophecy of this year coming on, 1666, explaining it to be the mark...Samuel Pepys Francis PotterAn interpretation of the number 666Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and there begun to read Potters discourse upon 666, which peases me mightily; and then broke off, and to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys Francis PotterAn interpretation of the number 666Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home and read an hour, to make an end of Potters discourse of the Number 666, which I like all along, but his close is most excellent; and whether it be right o...Samuel Pepys Francis PotterAn interpretation of the Number 666Print: Book
1800-1849Before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar and Bonnycastle's algebra...Anne Lister John BonnycastleAn introduction to algebra or a treatise on algebr


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