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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Diary entry. September 19th, 1831: "He showed me his Benedictine edition of Gregory. It is in high preservation, & very beautiful. I will get one like it, whenever I ha...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus ApologeticusPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. September 26th, 1831: "We read another passage from Gregory’s Apologia — not a very fine one. Then we read the exordium of The Orations against Julian. It ...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus ApologeticusPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. November 30th, 1831: "We read passages from Gregory’s apologetic, — comparing his marks with mien, in different copies, — & came to the conclusion, that ou...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus ApologeticusPrint: Book
1800-1849Diary entry. December 8th, 1831: "Mr. Boyd certainly pleased to see me. I read what he wanted to hear out of Phillips —& something form the apologetic besides".Elizabeth Barrett Browning Gregory of Nazianzus ApologeticusPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1837: 'I will write out two passages from Justin Martyr, the only ones which struck me while I was reading him, on the subject...Elizabeth Barrett Justin MartyrApologia Prima Pro Christianis (LVXI,2)Print: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains. I have read partly Newman's Apologia; he seems to m...Leonard Woolf John Henry NewmanApologia pro vita suaPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincia...Oscar Wilde John Henry NewmanApologia Pro Vita SuaPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 4 December 1811: 'I have read Watson to Gibbon. He proves nothing, so I am where I was, verging towards Spinoza ... 'George Gordon, Lord Byron Richard WatsonApology for Christianity, in a Series of Letters t...Print: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on the question of whether Stevenson's work will live ...Alfred and Janet RawlingsRobert Louis StevensonApology for IdlersPrint: Book
1800-1849'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the books with which the shelves were stored. The "Age o...Charles Manby Smith Bishop WatsonApology for the biblePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Bp. Watson's "Apology for the Bible", in reply to Paine....'Thomas Green Richard WatsonApology for the BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington Bishop WatsonApology for the Bible, in Letters to Thomas PainePrint: Book
1700-1799'Began Colley Cibber's "Life"; and was much delighted with his minute yet masterly account of the principal actors who figured previously to the Revolution...'Thomas Green Colley CibberApology for the Life of Colley CibberPrint: Book
1700-1799'. . . let me recommend to You, to borrow or get from the Circulating Library, "An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber"?This book has Chance thrown in my Way since I...Samuel Crisp Colley CibberApology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber, ComedianPrint: Book
1700-1799'Boswell. "You have read his [Cibber's] apology, Sir ?" Johnson. "Yes, it is very entertaining. But as for Cibber himself, taking from his conversation all that he ought ...Samuel Johnson Colley CibberApology for the Life of Mr. Colley CibberPrint: Book
1700-1799'BOSWELL. "Yet Cibber was a man of observation?" JOHNSON. "I think not." BOSWELL. "You will allow his 'Apology' to be well done". JOHNSON. "Very well done, to be sure, Si...James Boswell Colley CibberApology for the Life of Mr. Colley CibberPrint: Book
1700-1799[Mr Rooke tells LP] 'as I had, in the Shop, read your [italics] Apology for the Minister [end italics], I was greatly surprized to hear it was the Product of a Lady's Pen...George Rooke Laetitia PilkingtonApology for the Minister, AnPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799'[At the home of the Quaker Mr Lloyd] I having asked to look at Baskerville's edition of "Barclay's Apology", Johnson laid hold of it; and the chapter on baptism happenin...James Boswell Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1700-1799'[At the home of the Quaker Mr Lloyd] I having asked to look at Baskerville's edition of "Barclay's Apology", Johnson laid hold of it; and the chapter on baptism happenin...Samuel Johnson Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have been reading a letter from my father in which he offers me to come to London, [underline] what [end underline] a temptation, but I believe it to be much better fo...Elizabeth Gurney Robert BarclayApology for the True Christian DivinityPrint: Book


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