Switch to English Switch to French

The Open University  |   Study at the OU  |   About the OU  |   Research at the OU  |   Search the OU

Listen to this page  |   Accessibility

the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK Historical image of readers
 
RED International logo

 
 
 

Advanced Search results:



Any results shown below can be ordered in a variety of ways simple by clicking on the column header. To view an individual entry click on the 'Evidence' data.

 

You searched for:




To search again: Click 'Search' in the navigation menu above or use the web browser 'back' button.

30503 records found. (displaying 20 per page)



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

Go to page: [1]   372 373 374 375 376  377  378 379 380 381 382   [1526]

 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Read Golownins Captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.'Benjamin Newton Walter ScottRob Roy: By the author of WaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J.Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quite...Benjamin Newton Samuel PeggeAnecdotes of the English languagePrint: Book
1800-1849'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quit...Benjamin Newton Sir John SinclairThe Code of AgriculturePrint: Book
1800-1849'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quit...Benjamin Newton Bede[The Ecclesiastical History]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Vth and VIth vol. of Clarke, admired his account of pyramids, catacombs and hatching of chickens [...]His supposition [...] that the Soros in the Chamber of the Gre...Benjamin Newton Samuel Clarke[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finished Curwen's letters, I have recorded my opinion of the style, the commonplace of the abuse of tithes pervades the work tho' he fails more than most of the advocate...Benjamin Newton John CurwenObservations on the State of IrelandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wrote part of a sermon from Gisborne's Natural Theology'Benjamin Newton Thomas GisborneThe Testimony of Natural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have also read Gisbourne's natural theology. The design and matter of the work are excellent but it is exceedingly deficient in that plainess and persipicuity in which...Benjamin Newton Thomas GisborneThe Testimony of Natural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Began reading a Tour in Denmarkby Von Buch translated by Black with geological and mineralogical notes by Professor Jamieson [comments on contents]'Benjamin Newton [Von Buch][a tour in Denmark]Print: Book
1800-1849'Bedale club. Sat next to Dr Scott who told wonderful stories of the effect which Bell's Mode of Education had caused at the charterhouse. [...] Some of Watson's life whi...Benjamin Newton Richard WatsonAnecdotes of the life of Richard Watson [...] writPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Armata, said to be Lord Erskine's, very unworthy of his name 'tho his politics are displayed which are pretty nearly my opinions and I should therefore be more incl...Benjamin Newton [Erskine or T.E.] Armata, a FragmentPrint: Book
1800-1849'Another of Von Buch's Miraculous Tales. On the coast of Norway are many rocks [...] This is the nineteenth hot day without any rain voila Mr Buch once more. At Skey eagl...Benjamin Newton [Von Buch][A Tour in Denmark]Print: Book
1800-1849'Von Buch says that it is only lately that the Holy Sacrament has been better understood by the Laplanders [...]'Benjamin Newton [Von Buch][A Tour in Denmark]Print: Book
1800-1849'Proceeded with Denham's "Physico-Theology". Read Hurd's sermon on "Every soul shall be salted with fire", an odd mode of preaching, he seems to give two guesses at the m...Benjamin Newton William DerhamPhysio Theology or a Demonstartion of the beingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saw the names of three old acquaintances written with a diamond on the window of our sitting room, viz, Mrs Rewe, Mrs Price, Miss S.Hatton, Sep.1793'Benjamin Newton n/an/aManuscript: Graffito
1800-1849[Annotations] Written on Fol 1 recto, "Mechanics Institute Jan 1839" and on Fol 2 recto, in the same hand, "H.J.Batt Esq, Uxbridge"H.J. Batt Uxbridge & HIllingdon Literary & Mechanics Institu...Print: Advertisement, Pamphlet
1800-1849"Florence Nightingale's copy of Mrs. Trimmer's New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a General Outline of the Roman History (1818) has Nightingale's autograph in penc...Florence Nightingale Mrs TrimmerNew and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a Genera...Print: Book
1800-1849" ... [S. T. Coleridge] in a copy of Gerhard Voss's Poeticarum institutionum, libri tres (1647): 'I have looked thro' this book with some attention, April 21, 1803 --, an...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gerhard VossPoeticarum Institutionum, libri tresPrint: Book
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book


Go to page: [1]   372 373 374 375 376  377  378 379 380 381 382   [1526]



  

Click check box to select all entries on this page:

 

OU logo
   
AHRC logo
   
Green Turtle Web Design