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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'Finished Hey Groves' modern methods of treating fractures an excellent book. Started Saville's Clinical Medicine — 7 hrs. reading.'Albert Ruskin Cook Ernest William Hey GrovesOn Modern Methods of Treating FracturesPrint: BookManuscript: Letter, telegram
1700-1799'Finished Hurd's "Lectures on the Prophecies"...'Thomas Green Richard HurdAn introduction to the study of the propheciesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Jortin's "Life of Erasmus"....'Thomas Green John JortinLife of ErasmusPrint: Book
1850-1899'finished Kahnis' History of German Protestantism'.George Eliot [pseud.] Karl Friedrich August Kahnis[history of German Protestantism - title unclear]Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished Lessing's Laocoon - the most un-German of all German books that I have ever read.The style is strong clear and lively, the thoughts acute and pregnant. It is we...George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim LessingLaocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Po...Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Finished Longinus on the Sublime; to which I had been led, by Gibbon's critique in his "Extraits Raisonnes"...'Thomas Green LonginusOn the SublimePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Lord Bacon's Letters, edited by Birch. It is grievous to see this great man, who appears from various passages fully sensible of his vast powers and attainment...Thomas Green Francis BaconLetters, speeches, charges, advices, &c. of Franci...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finished Malone's "Life of Dryden", prefixed to an Edition of his Prose Works. By the drudgery of searching deeds, wills, genealogies, registers, and recods of all sort...Thomas Green Edmond MaloneCritical and Miscellaneous Works of John DrydenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Marco Polo, a very curious book for the time in which it was written, wonderfully accurate in the account of the people bating his miracles [...] which was the ...Benjamin Newton Marco PoloThe Travels of Marco PoloPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Marsh's "Tract on the Politics of Great Britain and France"...'Thomas Green Herbert MarshThe history of the politicks of Great Britain and ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finished Miss Austen's "Emma", which amused me very much, impressing me with a high opinion of her powers of drawing and sustaining character, though not satisfying me a...William Charles Macready Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished Mistress of Brae Farm.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Rosa Nouchette CareyThe Mistress of Brae FarmPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Monier Williams'George Eliot [pseud] Monier Monier Williams[presumably work on Sanskrit]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finished Moore's "Edward". The outset of this novel delighted me highly; but as it advances, the interest declines...'Thomas Green John MooreEdward. Various views of human naturePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Moore's "Zeluco". The character is will contrived to purge the selfish and malignant passions, by exhibiting the hideous effect of their unrestricted indulgenc...Thomas Green John MooreZeluco. Various views of human naturePrint: Book
1800-1849'finished my morning's work a few minutes before 2. Made an extract or 2 from Lord Byron's Childe Harold + the lyrics at the end of the book in readiness to take it back....Anne Lister George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde HaroldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'George Eliot [pseud] LucretiusDe Rerum NaturaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'George Eliot Victor HugoL'Homme Qui RitPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Arzt der Seele".'George Eliot Willhelmine von HillernEin Arzt der SeelePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Pearson's "Remarks on the Theory of Morals"...'Thomas Green Edward PearsonRemarks on the Theory of MoralsPrint: Book


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