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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Spender [J.A. Spender, editor of the Westminster Gazette] has recently introduced me to Thucydides & I think he is the greatest of all historians. Indeed I need say no ...Arnold Bennett Thucydides[Histories]Print: Book
1700-1799'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile...Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian War,Print: Book
1700-1799'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which he did, and then Johnson found fault with the simile...Samuel Johnson ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Cloudy but very pleasant. Sighted Gozzo [Gozo] about 10. Read Thucydides and packed. Very amusing watching Gozo with its high perched little towns and terraced fields ru...Gertrude Bell ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'After breakfast & a short walk we start work on Thucydides — a desperately dull and tedious Greek historian.'Clive Staples Lewis ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian WarPrint: Book
1800-1849‘As to the Thucydides, I cannot think it exactly the book for me - considering how little access I have at present to classical books, and how little I know of those cr...Hartley Coleridge Thucydides[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Timur's Institutes...'Mounstuart Elphinstone TimurInstitutesPrint: Book
1800-1849"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo...Frances Power Cobbe Tindal Print: Book
1700-1799?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan, Collins, Woolston, Annet, Mandeville, Shaftesbury, ...James Lackington TindallunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found great...Thomas Burt ToddStudent's ManualPrint: Book
1850-1899'Then rested, and read Topffer's "Nouvelles Genevoises" - excellent talk but no "nouvelles".'John Ruskin TopfferNouvelles GenevoisesPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of the traditional story of the 'Sportsman and the Countryman', beginning 'A sportsman had been ou... TraditionalThe Sportsman and the CountrymanUnknown
1850-1899'Oh my vessel's on the say says the shan van voght And I do not know what to say says the shan van voght.'Robert Louis Stevenson Traditional BalladShan Van VoghtUnknown
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1850-1899		In Letter XI, "Letters on Daily Life", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces a sonnet by 'Archbishop Trench' opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident / It is the v...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Trenchsonnet opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by ac...Unknown
1900-1945Wednesday 16 August 1933: 'I want to discuss Form, having been reading Turgenev [goes on to make remarks on this topic]'.Virginia Woolf TurgenevunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Roberta Rubenstein, 14 December 1968: 'What is your evidence for saying that Virginia had never read a Russian novel until she read Crime and Punishme...Leonard Woolf Turgenev 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 Turgot 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 Turgot[Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoiesPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Tuesday, October 20th. 'Rose at 6. Studied some more of Turgot's Dissertation, whic...George Grote Turgot[Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoiesPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Tuesday, October 20th. 'Rose at 6. Studied some more of Turgot's Dissertation, whic...George Grote Turgot[Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoiesPrint: Book


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