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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly...George Smith [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly...George Smith [unknown][history]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly...George Smith [unknown][biblical criticism]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly...George Smith [unknown][treatises on algebra and geometry]Print: Book
1800-1849'Methodist millworker Thomas Wood attended a school where there was only one book, the Bible, which was never read beyond the first chapter of St John. Therefore he later...Thomas Wood n/aBiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Methodist millworker Thomas Wood attended a school where there was only one book, the Bible, which was never read beyond the first chapter of St John. Therefore he later...Thomas Wood Charles RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Having just finished the first volume of les Veillees du Chateau, I think it a good opportunity of beginning a letter to you while my mind is stored with Ideas worth tra...Jane Austen Madame de Genlisles Veillees du ChateauPrint: Book
1800-1849And here I am on a wet Sunday looking out of a damned large bow window at the rain as it falls into the puddles opposite, wondering when it will be dinner time, and cursi...Charles Dickens Henry Torrens [Sir]Field exercises and evolutions of the armyPrint: Book
1800-1849Scott probably knew de Stael, he was certainly acquainted with her work, friends, lifestyle etc. Here is a brief excerpt: '...the tendency of the last of her productions,...John Scott Anne-Louise-Germaine de StaelConsiderations sur les Principaux Evenements de laPrint: Book
1800-1849I send you by George (who in Fred?s absence on business, is kind enough to be the bearer of this) the volume which contains the Life of Savage. I have turned down the lea...Charles Dickens Samuel JohnsonAn account of the life of Mr. Richard SavagePrint: Book
1800-1849'We think he is mistaken in every respect. His work does not teach the human heart, but insults it...His precepts are conveyed in the cries of Bedlam; and the outrage of ...John Scott Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe CenciPrint: Book
1800-1849[The text is an open letter from Pearson to Paley, praising the latter's book, and suggesting its use as an academic textbook. The letter is dated 11/11/1802]Edward Pearson William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849I am glad you like The Black Veil. I think that the title is a good one, because it is uncommon, and does not impair the interest of the story by partially explaining its...John Macrone Charles DickensThe Black VeilPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'One unfortunate who had confounded together the opening paragraphs of the Evidences and the Natural Theology... [wrote as his exam answer] only this commencement of a se...William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading," notes that Mary Ann Evans began reading Scott when aged seven.Mary Ann Evans Walter Scott Print: Book
1800-1849Marginal comments throughout the text, generally of the format of a key word within the text being indicated with a cross and the marginal comment then arguing a related ...John Drummond Erskine Adam DicksonAn essay on the causes of the present high price o...Print: Book
1800-1849Recd from WM the Morning Herald of Friday, which pleased me to find him so attentive, to what he knows gives me satisfaction; I am now beforehand with the knowing ones I ...Robert Sharp The Morning HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849I see Lord Liverpool has been taken very ill, some of the farmers were so devoted as to say that providence has interfered so far as to put a stop to any alteration to th...Robert Sharp [newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Read the last Nos of Cobbett to the 24th Feb he has no compassion for Lord Liverpool; The Elegy on Bric is as ludicruous as can be well concieved. He still persuades his...Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Cobbett tells a very plausible tale of being deceived by the man who was to have been his surety...Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical


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