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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Declaration of PrinciplesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Years afterwards, I was to discover the "Declaration of the Independence of the Mind" issued to his fellow brain-workers by the French writer, Romain Rolland, from Ville...Vera Brittain Romain RollandDeclaration of the Independence of the Mind Print: Unknown
1600-1699'By and by the Duke of York comes and we had a meeting; and among other things, I did read my declaration of the proceedings of the Victualling action this year, and desi...Samuel Pepys Samuel PepysDeclaration of the proceedings of the victualling ...Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called...Thomas Carlyle Edward GibbonDecline & Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'An author's name carries weight with me, but results are sometimes disappointing - e.g. I enjoyed Evelyn Waugh's "Decline and Fall", and so I bought "Vile Bodies" only ...Evelyn WaughDecline and FallPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has been tolerably extensive in the historical department,...George Gordon Lord Byron Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.Thomas Babington Macaulay Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1850-1899[Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Christianity, diffusion of, assisted by the general scepticism of the pagan world combined with the necessity of some belief in the vulgar...Edward Davy Harrop Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'During these twelve months [inprison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Hume's "History of England", and many othe...James Watson Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1850-1899?Another great book which I bought in those days was Gibbon?s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (Bohn?s edition in seven volumes). Relative to my means, the price wa...Thomas Burt Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that ...Samuel Bamford David HumeDecline and fall of the Roman empirePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the world at the appearance of Christianity'George Eliot [pseud] Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 September 1837: 'I read Gibbon. It makes me dread a single literary life, so selfish, so vain and blind, as ths great man grew to be!' Harriet Martineau Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon. Selfish, vain, unhappy man! [goes on to discuss Gibbon]'Harriet Martineau Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday 28th November ?Decline and fall? (Edward Gibbon).' Gerald Moore Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 7th December. "Decline and Fall? ? Vol. 2'. Gerald Moore Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'At Winchester I was able to get the first volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall", but had no time to finish it. On another occasion at another prison I read the whole wor...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s eight chaotic volumes are before me. To say nothing o...Thomas Carlyle Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book


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