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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'So, to work I went in my own way, again and again studying the New Testament,-making "Harmonies", poring over the geography,greedily gathering up every thing I could fin...Harriet Martineau New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'With the Old Testament, I got on very well; but I was amazed at the difficulty with the New. I knew it to be of so much more value and importance than the Old, that I co...Harriet Martineau Old and New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849''When I was seven years old [...] I was kept from chapel one Sunday afternoon by some ailment or other. When the door closed behind the other chapel-goers, I looked at ...Harriet Martineau John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'There is also Madame de Stael on the French revolution - first volume only finished - remarks (if any) in the next letter.' Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein'Considerations on the French Revolution'Print: Book
1800-1849'With regard to reading, you would think I have enough of time upon my hands at present: yet the truth is, I have often read more, almost never studied less!... There is ...Thomas Carlyle Robert JamesonUnknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much conscience to dilate upon this subject. Besides, it is no...Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-HolsteinConsiderations Sur La Revolution FrancaisePrint: Book
1800-1849'In conformity with ancient custom, I ought now to transmit you some account of my studies- But I have too much conscience to dilate upon this subject... On the same auth...Thomas Carlyle Horace Benedict SaussureVoyages dans les AlpesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Bailly's memoires d'un temoin de la revolution, with little comfort. The book is not ill-written: but it grieved me to see the august historian of astronomy, the...Thomas Carlyle Jean Sylvain BaillyMemoires D'un Temoin De La RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849'When I had been in school about twelve months, he resolved that one of the boys should read a chapter from the New Testament every Sunday after the opening prayer. I was...Christopher Thomson [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had charmed my boyish fancy and lingered in my memory.?Thomas Burt William WordsworthLucy GrayPrint: Book
1800-1849?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had charmed my boyish fancy and lingered in my memory.?Thomas Burt William WordsworthWe are sevenPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: has pencil annotations, opposite the title page and inside front cover, relating to the history and purchase of the book "Mr Heber certifies to me, that t...Patrick GordonFamous history of the renown'd and valiant prince,...Print: Book
1800-1849'We are reading Barretti's other book, & find him dreadfully abusive of poor Mr Sharpe.'Jane Austen Joseph BarettiAccount of the Manners and Customs of ItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849'We are reading Clarentine, & are surprised to find how foolish it is. I remember liking it much less on a 2d reading than at the 1st & it does not bear a 3d at all. It i...Jane Austen Sarah Harriet BurneyClarentine, A NovelPrint: Book
1800-1849?For reading aloud the one book used was the Bible, the Psalms being always selected. Directly the last Psalm was finished we turned back to the first, and began them ove...Thomas Catling [n/a]PsalmsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The other afternoon, as I was lying dozing in a brown study after dinner, a lord's lackey knocked at the door and delivered me a little blue parcel, requiring for it a n...Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von Goetheprivate letterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849[Marginalia]: substantial annotations on several pages, usually associated with marked passages in the text: eg p. 8 para beginning 'I admit that the existing stock of sp...John Drummond Erskine John WheatleyRemarks on currency and commercePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: substantially annotated throughout usually in the form of marks (| or *) in the text, to highlight points or sections of interest - usually points of trans...John Drummond Erskine William JonesPoeseos Asiaticae commentariorum libri sex, cum ap...Print: Book
1800-1849'The Dr [Brewster] stopped to tell me that he had got a paper on Chemistry written (in French) by Berzelius, professor of that science in Stockholm - which was to be publ...Thomas Carlyle Baron Jacob BerzeliusExamination of some compounds which depend upon ve...Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'...with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almo...Samuel Bamford John WesleyJournalsPrint: Book


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