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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Mary Berry to a friend, 19 November 1798: 'Don't let me forget to advise you to to read the "Natural Son," or "Lovers' Vows;" it is the entire and literal translation of ...Mary Berry Thomas Robert MalthusEssay on the Principle of PopulationPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had just begun at Brandsby, and which I like better and bet...Thomas Robert MalthusEssay on the Principle of PopulationPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas MalthusEssay on the Principle of PopulationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas MalthusEssay on the Principle of PopulationPrint: Book
1700-1799'C[oleridge] had read the Essay [on the Principle of Population] shortly after its first appearance in 1798.'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thomas Robert MalthusEssay on the Principle of Population, AnPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas MalthusEssay on the Principle of Population, AnPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Malthus'Mary Shelley Thomas MalthusEssay on the Principle of Population, AnPrint: Book
1800-1849'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer'Mary Shelley Thomas MalthusEssay on the Principle of Population, AnPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Aitkin's "Essay on the Use o...Mountstuart Elphinstone [John?] AikinEssay on the use of natural historyPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I think that essay does her honour." Johnson. "Yes, Sir;...Samuel Johnson Elizabeth MontaguEssay on the Writings and Genius of ShakespearPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I think that essay does her honour." Johnson. "Yes, Sir;...Joshua Reynolds Elizabeth MontaguEssay on the Writings and Genius of ShakespearPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I think that essay does her honour." Johnson. "Yes, Sir;...David Garrick Elizabeth MontaguEssay on the Writings and Genius of ShakespearPrint: Unknown
1800-1849?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Trut...Thomas Carter James BeattieEssay on truthPrint: Book
1900-1945'There was Hamish, confirmed practical joker, who donned stage make-up and a false beard and, pretending serious research, persuaded a member of the Bodleian staff to bri...Ralph Glasser John WilkesEssay on WomanManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'There was Hamish, confirmed practical joker, who donned stage make-up and a false beard and, pretending serious research, persuaded a member of the Bodleian staff to bri...Hamish John WilkesEssay on WomanPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Voltaire's "Siecle de Louis 14me.": a most entertaining and instructive work...'Thomas Green VoltaireEssay sur l?histoire du siecle de Louis XIVPrint: Book
1800-1849'Give Mr Whewell my best thanks for sending me his tide paper: all on board are much interested by it.'Charles Darwin William WhewellEssay Towards a First Approximation to a Map of Co...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'It was my intention to review Ferriar's "Theory of Apparitions"; but it is such a null, frivolous book, that it is impossible to take any notice of it'.Sydney Smith John FerriarEssay Towards a Theory of ApparitionsPrint: Book
1850-1899'How delightful are Sir Edward's Essays. One seems to see his own special creation, the accomplished man of the world, not entirely worldly, a quintessence of social wis...Margaret Oliphant Edward Bulwer LyttonEssaysPrint: Book
1600-1699The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu...John Taylor Michel Eyquem de MontaigneEssaysPrint: Book


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