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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'I have been reading French books lately that represent us as a nation of infidels. The specimens we most com...Catherine Talbot 'French books'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:] 'Shall I send your subscription copy of the Messiah, or keep it till you come? I admire many things in it ext...Catherine Talbot Friedrich Gottlieb KlopstockMessiahPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 December 1763:] 'Have you read Mrs Macaulay's history? I have seen only some extracts from it, which seemed to be writ with st...Elizabeth Carter Catherine Macaulay'History' [extracts]Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during stay in Canterbury, 12 February 1764:] 'I brought with me Hurd's Dialogues on Education, which have entertained his Grace...Thomas Secker Richard HurdDialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel Considered...Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during stay in Canterbury, 12 February 1764:] 'I brought with me Hurd's Dialogues on Education, which have entertained his Grace...Catherine Talbot Edward KimberMaria; The genuine memoirs of an admired lady of r...Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 August 1764:] 'Pray has Mrs M. got one of Mr Walpole's Memoirs of Lord Herbert [of Cherbury]? So few copies are dispersed, th...Catherine Talbot Horace WalpoleMemoirs of Lord Herbert of CherburyPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 June 1765:] 'The book I am happiest in reading at present, is a volume of Sermons of Abp. Leighton, strongly recommended to m...Catherine Talbot Robert LeightonSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 November 1765:] 'Abp. Leighton's works are great favourites with me at present. There is, I think, the best exposition of the...Catherine Talbot Robert LeightonWorks including 'Exposition of the Lord's Prayer'Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 November 1765:] 'What an agreeable fellow was that Philip of Macedon! We are reading his history; but the wise and elegant At...Catherine Talbot and familyThomas LelandThe History of the Life and Reign of Philip, King ...Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:] 'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with pleasure, and though the objection you made is just, it ...Catherine Talbot ?Thomas Simon ?Gueullette?Peruvian Tales (vol 3)Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:] 'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with pleasure, and though the objection you made is just, it ...Catherine Talbot Charles MorrellThe Tales of the GeniiPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766, on her pursuit of her 'journal-letter scheme':] 'I shall fancy if I write thus Journal-wise, by bits and scraps,...Catherine Talbot and familyJonathan SwiftLettersPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:] 'I have read Zaide, which I do not admire, as it is calculated to undo all the good impressions that may have b...Catherine Talbot ?Jean ?de la ChapelleZaidePrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:] 'I have just been reading a book, lately published, which I entreat you to like, as I do, exceedingly. -- It is...Catherine Talbot James FordyceSermons to Young WomenPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 3 September 1766:] 'Little puss is sitting by me on a huge folio of popish saints, on which I have wasted many a half hour latel...Catherine Talbot Pedro de Ribadeneira?Flos SanctorumPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 September 1766:] 'Pray ask Mrs Montagu if she hears any thing in Newcastleshire of the charming Mrs Wilson of 104 [?years old...Catherine Talbot Account of 'Mrs Wilson's' visit to New YorkPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 11 October 1766:] 'Fye upon you and your popish saints [...] Your whole folio [of saints' lives] is not half so well worth readi...Elizabeth Carter Lloyd's ChroniclePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 July 1767:] 'We are deep (for our after supper book) in Lord Lyttleton [i.e. his History of Henry II]. For my own amusement I ...Catherine Talbot and familyGeorge LytteltonHistory of the Life of Henry IIPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767:] 'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, that you may be fit to translate for us forty-four Ass...Catherine Talbot Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-HaririSix assemblies; or, ingenious conversations of lea...Print: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767: 'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, that you may be fit to translate for us forty-four Assem...Catherine Talbot Bodmer Johann JakobNoah. Attempted from the German of Mr. Bodmer. In ...Print: Book


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