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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'two papers this morning, the one that missed yesterday came today [...] I see there is a great deficiency in the Quarter's Revenue - were an individual to go in the mann...Robert Sharp n/aThe TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have done little since I wrote last but revised Leslie's conics, and read a part of Laplace's 'exposition du systeme du monde' not the mecanique celeste for I alas, am...Thomas Carlyle Simon-Pierre LaplaceExposition du systeme du mondePrint: Book
1800-1849'I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned aside into Leslie's conics - 'Thomas Carlyle Simon-Pierre LaplaceExposition du systeme du mondePrint: Book
1800-1849'I had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned aside into Leslie's conics - & went thro' it, in search ...Thomas Carlyle Sir John LeslieElements of Geometry, Geometrical Analysis, and Pl...Print: Book
1800-1849'I likewise turned into Charles Bossut's Mecanique - to study his demonstration of pendulums, and his doctrine of forces. The text is often tediously explanatory - & in ...Thomas Carlyle Charles BossutMecaniquePrint: Book
1800-1849'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was foolish, you may think, to exchange the truths of philos...Thomas Carlyle Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Book
1800-1849'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was foolish, you may think, to exchange the truths of philos...Thomas Carlyle George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold (Canto IV)Print: Book
1800-1849'27th June - The last book worth mentioning, which I perused was Stewart's preliminary dissertation - for the second time. The longer I study the works of this philosoph...Thomas Carlyle Dugald StewartPhilosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849"A young handloom weaver in Carlisle was able to develop both his literacy skills and his political consciousness as his workshop responded with keen interest to the moun...William Farish newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849"As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstamped press: "'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I fi...James Watson notice of political meetingPrint: Poster
1800-1849"As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstamped press: "'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I fi...Members of Radical Reform group The Black DwarfPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstamped press: "'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I fi...Members of Radical Reform group The RepublicanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstamped press: "'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I fi...Members of Radical Reform group The Political RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-18493 pp of ms at the end of v.1 appear to be brief notes abstracted from details in the text. Each page is ruled and divided into 3 columns headed, 'Substance', 'Symptoms', ...Dr Sibbald Matthieu Joseph Bonaventure OrfilaA general system of toxicology, or, a treatise on ...Print: Book
1800-1849'A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line, telling us he had heard Cobbett's register read lately, where he says in about a year or perhaps rather more from...[A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line] anon William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'At church twice today as usual; the Parson at his work amongst the children, armed with a huge octavo which he called Archbishop Secker's Lectures on the Church Catechis...'The Parson' Thomas SeckerLectures on the Catechism of the Church of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Cobbett is quite entertaining in his Rural Rides, he indeed excels in rural descriptions; he sees as well as all may who do not shut their eyes, the poverty and degradat...Robert Sharp William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I see by the Times this morning there is a project for two prices, paper & cash, viz paper one fourth of gold, it appears to be a wild scheme, however I cannot understan...Robert Sharp n/aThe TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have read most of Moore's Life of Sheridan, I see Mr Canning first came into notice in 1794...'Robert Sharp Thomas MooreMemoirs of the Life of the Rt Hon R B SheridanPrint: Book
1800-1849'The paper which should have been here yesterday arrived today, so that there were two this morning... I see by the Rockingham that the last voyage of the Steam Packets f...Robert Sharp n/aRockingham and Hull Weekly AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper


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