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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849I was on the amoroso till M- made me read aloud the first 126pp, vol 2, of Sir walter Scott's(he has just been made a baronet) last novel The Monastery, in 3 vols, 12 mo ...Anne Lister Sir Walter ScottThe Monastery. A romanceUnknown
1800-1849from 1 to 3, read the first 100pp. vol 3 Leontine de Blondheim...It is altogether a very interesting thing +have read it with a sort of melancholy feeling, the very germ ...Anne Lister August Fredrich Ferdinand von KotzebueLeontine de BlondheimPrint: Book
1800-1849'Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42mo. Price 5/-, 5th edition.Anne Lister Anthony Todd ThomsonA Conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London [ePrint: Book
1800-1849Spent the afternoon in mending some of my things for the wash. After tea, read aloud sermons 13+14 of Alison's.Anne Lister Archibald AlisonSermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849Read...Demosthenes +...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' & I certainly feel considerably improved but I am disatisfied with myself for not...Anne Lister DesmosthenesAll the Orations of DemosthenesPrint: Book
1800-1849Had no time for Eudid but looked into Emerson's mechanics for 1/4 hour, as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday and whi...Anne Lister William EmersonThe principle of mechanicsUnknown
1800-1849Just after ten read aloud to my aunt the very favourable review of Lallah Rookh; an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore...The extracts from this poetic romance are very beau...Anne Lister Thomas MooreLallah Rookh or 'Review'Unknown
1800-1849'At 12 Marianna and I went upstairs. She sat sewing and I reading aloud to her the first 3 or 4 pages of the M.S. Lectures on physiology Dr Scudamore lent me 10 days ago....Anne Lister Dr ScudamoreLectures on physiologyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Read...Demosthenes and ...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' and I certainly feel considerably improved.Anne Lister Thomas LelandAll the Orations of Demosthenes Translated into EnUnknown
1800-1849had no time for Euclid but looked into Emerson's Mechanics for 1/4 hour as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday.Anne Lister William EmersonMechanics or The Principles of MechanicsPrint: Book
1800-1849before breakfast, props.24+25 lib. EuclidAnne Lister Euclid The ElementsPrint: Book
1800-1849between 1 and 2, the first 7 propositions of the 1st book of Euclid, with which I mean to renew my acquaintance and to proceed diligentlyin the hope that [...], may somet...Anne Lister Euclid The ElementsPrint: Book
1800-1849All went to morning church & said the sacrement [...] Read the psalms & lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and...my aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele.Anne Lister BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849I have been pleased with some tracts on political Economy by William Alias Entomology Spence esq. F.L.S. Just reprinted since 1806, or 1808, but the reasoning not out of ...Anne Lister William SpenceTracts on Political Economy: Viz I. Britain IndepePrint: Book
1800-1849Before breakfast from 7 3/4 to 9 1/4, from 10 3/4 to 2 1/2 (including an interruption of 20 minutes)read from V.1304 to 1527, end of Philoctetes of Sophlocles, & afterwar...Anne Lister SophoclesPhiloctetes
1800-1849Called at Whiteley's. Saw there the Leeds Mercury & my father's estate advertised in it. Went to the library for a little while then went back to Northgate [...] Isabella...Anne Lister The Leeds MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Went downstairs a very little after 9 so as to have 1/2 hour before church for reading 2 or 3 old papers my uncle gave me.Anne Lister '2 or 3 old papers'Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Began Dr Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, A journey to the western Isles of scotland... My aunt and I read aloud the evening service.Anne Lister James BoswellThe journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel ...Print: Book
1800-1849down the newbank to Halifax. Called at a shop or 2, and at Miss Kitson's. Went for 1/2 hour tothe library till the Saltmarshes had done dinner. Read a few pp. of a transl...Anne Lister CiceroOn/the book of old agePrint: Book
1800-1849From Hope went to the library and staid about an hour reading... In monthly Magazine of July 1820 remarkable praise of the life + writings of the celestial German philoso...Anne Lister Monthly MagazinePrint: Book


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