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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from Cobbett; the lessons in Cassell?s "Popular Educator"...William Edwin Adams John CassellPopular EducatorPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849?? the shining events in Paris and the newer literature that began to be issued saw the young men of my age wild with excitement and enthusiasm. I had previously read the...William Edwin Adams Thomas PaineThe Rights of ManPrint: Book
1800-1849'Another Sunday recollection is that of a Sunday morning gathering in a humble kitchen. Larry [a crippled shoemaker] made his appearance every Sunday morning, as regu... [n/a]Northern StarPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849?His [James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad...James Watson William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?His [James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad...James Watson Thomas Jonathan WoolerBlack DwarfPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?[James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in ...James Watson Richard CarlileRepublicanPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849?[James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in ...Mrs Watson William CobbettPolitical RegisterPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I left off swearing and prodigality and took to reading my Bible and attending divine workship and in doing this I laid hold of some of the promises of the gospel and ap...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849?here I was stationed in a half Room that is half the men of our Company, and half of another Company and there was a man whose name was Samuel winwright a man of the oth...Joseph Mayett [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'What I thus learned was, I think, much enforced by the perusal of that well-known little book, Watt's "Divine and Moral Songs", which I read with so much interest as to ...Thomas Carter Isaac WattsDivine and Moral SongsPrint: Book
1800-1849Carter describes exam he was forced to undertake to be admitted to the school which was supported by a congregation of Protestant Dissenters: 'it was required of the appl...Thomas Carter [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'A little before this time I had been reading that entertaining little volume, Miss Taylor's "Original Poems for Children", one of which, "The Truant Boys", had particula...Thomas Carter Anne TaylorOriginal Poems for Infant MindsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Once in each week we were required to commit to memory a rather large portion of "The Assembly's Catechism": this for a time gave me some trouble, which put me upon maki...Thomas Carter [unknown]The Assembly's CatechismPrint: Book
1800-1849'On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were chiefly old and odd volumes of the "Arminian" and the...Thomas Carter [n/a]Arminian MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were chiefly old and odd volumes of the "Arminian" and the...Thomas Carter [n/a]Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Of grammar neither myself nor my schoolfellows were taught aything, except to repeat by rote the brief grammatical exercises contained in the "Universal Spelling Book", ...Thomas Carter Daniel FenningThe Universal Spelling BookPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ...Thomas Carter William EnfieldThe SpeakerPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fall in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ...Thomas Carter Sir Richard PhillipsGeographyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fall in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ...Thomas Carter [unknown]History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ...Thomas Carter [unknown]History of RomePrint: Book


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