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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulation...Elizabeth Hamilton Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sir, this book ("The Elements of Criticism", which he had taken up,) is a pretty essay, and deserves to be held in some estimation, though much of it is chimerical'.Samuel Johnson Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1700-1799'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and you think yourselves very great men. Hume would never...Samuel Johnson Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old thin...Mr Murphy Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old thin...Oliver Goldsmith Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old thin...Samuel Johnson Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] Do I not well remember hiding "Kaims's Elements of Criticism", under the cover of an easy chair, whenever I heard the approach of a foo...Elizabeth Hamilton Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1800-1849'With regard to the division of the circle into 360 parts,- I think it cannot be done by elementary Geometry - at least if M. Gauss is right - who (Leslie tells us) has d...Thomas Carlyle Sir John LeslieElements of GeometryPrint: 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'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. Bu...Mary Smith George PayneElements of Mental and Moral SciencePrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 August 1754: 'I was much pleased the other day in reading a system of moral philosophy, to find that the moral frame was not p...Catherine Talbot David FordyceElements of Moral PhilosophyPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Read over Beattie's "Elements of Moral Science"--a miserable work...'Thomas Green James BeattieElements of moral sciencePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Elements of Morality and Smellie'.Mary Godwin Mary WollstonecraftElements of Morality, for the use of childrenPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 23 January 1837: 'I have read Coombs [sic] Phrenology [...] [It] is very clever, & amusing; but I do not think it logical or satis...Elizabeth Barrett George CombeElements of PhrenologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary'...Thomas Carter Dugald StewartElements of the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in their censures of "the metaphysical heresies" of th...Thomas Carlyle Dugald StewartElements of the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849'My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I have read little since I saw you: and of that little, I...Thomas Carlyle Dugald StewartElements of the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1700-1799'A book I have a high opinion of'Frances Hamilton Dugald StewartElements of the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Isaac TaylorElements of ThoughtPrint: Book
1600-1699'This day I bought the second part of Dr Bates's "Elenchus", which reaches to the fall of Richard and no further, for which I am sorry.'Samuel Pepys George BateElenchi motuum nuperorum in Anglia pars secundaPrint: Book


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