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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 9 March 1814: 'I dined with Madame de Stael; nobody but Campbell the poet, Rocca, and her own daughter [...] After dinner, Campbell read to us a disc...Thomas Campbell Thomas Campbelldiscourse on English poetry and poetsUnknown
1850-1899'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the Epistle of John and the Psalm Quam Bonus'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaDiscourse on GovernmentPrint: Book
1700-1799'This violence [of Dr Johnson against Rousseau] seemed very strange to me, who had read many of Rousseau's animated writings with great pleasure, and even edification; ha...James Boswell Jean Jacques RousseauDiscourse on InequalityPrint: Book
1700-1799"On 20 July 1804 W[ordsworth] wrote to Sir George Beaumont: "'A few days ago I received from Mr Southey your very acceptable present of Sir Joshua Reynolds works, whi...William Wordsworth Sir Joshua ReynoldsDiscoursesPrint: Book
1800-1849Felicia Browne to Matthew Nicholson, 17 July 1811: 'I have been reading lately the memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with his discourses to the Royal Academy, & I am so ent...Felicia Browne Sir Joshua ReynoldsDiscoursesPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 5 November 1823, from Guy's Cliff: 'In the evening, Greathead read a portion of Irving's "Dscourses:" very bombastic and high-flown; strong in words ...Mr Greathead IrvingDiscoursesPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Mrs Voynich has sent me M Aurelius and Epictetus. The last is a game old boy, and I should dearly love to watch him in a strafe, but M Aurelius is a pious swanker in...Ivor Bertie Gurney EpictetusDiscourses and/or EnchiridionPrint: Book
'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Academy", by Sir Joshua Reynolds, whom he always consid...James Boswell Joshua ReynoldsDiscourses Delivered at the Royal AcademyPrint: Book
'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Academy", by Sir Joshua Reynolds, whom he always consid...Samuel Johnson Joshua ReynoldsDiscourses Delivered at the Royal AcademyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every available evening I spent in the reference room [at Birmingham Central Library], searching for books which put me in company with the literary giants of the past. ...Vero Walter Garratt Epictetus Discourses of EpictetusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Writing an addendum entitled "The Interruptions" to the copious journal which she kept in the early 1830s, Emily Shore gave a wry picture of the difficulties attendant o...Emily Shore and motherJoshua ReynoldsDiscourses on ArtPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the 1st Book of Macchievel's "Discorsi sopra Livio"...'Thomas Green Niccolo MachiavelliDiscourses on LivyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has interested me - 'Jane Baillie Welsh Niccolo MacchiavelliDiscourses on LivyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John DavisonDiscourses on ProphecyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Balguy's "Discourses". They are all masterly; but the first four, and the 8th, tower above the rest in excellence...'Thomas Green Thomas BalguyDiscourses on various subjectsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
A. Medical.
[...]
Minor Horrors of present war.
Staying the Plague – Harman
Military Orthopedics – Jones
...		Albert Ruskin Cook James MacKenzieDiseases of the HeartPrint: Book
1900-1945'Started to read "Disgrace Abounding" by Douglas Reed. He has got a bee in his bonnet about the Jews. Very insidious because when he gives chapter and verse one immediate...Douglas ReedDisgrace AboundingPrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses annotations by John Horne Tooke in his copy of Joseph Priestley, Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit (1777; gift from the author), in whic...John Horne Tooke Joseph PriestleyDisquisitions Relating to Matter and SpiritPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at “Oakdene”, Northcourt Avenue. 14.2.44
    S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the ...		Francis E. Pollard André MauroisDisraeliPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 24. III 37
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
3. Disraeli: Doro...		Celia Burrow André MauroisDisraeli: A Picture of the Victorian AgePrint: Book


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