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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closely. Thus, in No. 16,-- "The effects of the return o...James Boswell Vicesimus KnoxEssays Moral and Literary Print: Book
1800-1849'I am highly indebted to you for Hume. I like his essays better than any thing I have read these many days. He has prejudices, he does maintain errors - but he defends hi...Thomas Carlyle David HumeEssays Moral, Political and LiteraryPrint: Book
1800-1849'The best book I have read, since I wrote you, is Hume's "Essays, political and literary". It is indeed a most ingenious production - characterised by acuteness and origi...Thomas Carlyle David HumeEssays Moral, Political and LiteraryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman Charles LambEssays of EliaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and ...R.L. Wild Charles LambEssays of EliaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Miss Jewsbury lay on the floor and read half through the Essays of Elia and called our drawing room "such an ugly room in which we should always be unhappy".'Miss Jewsbury Charles LambEssays of EliaPrint: Book
1850-1899'In one letter, written in June 1893, he logs Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Lorna Doone ("seventh or eighth time"), Saintsbury's Essays on French Novelists, Dumas's Tuli...John Buchan George SaintsburyEssays on French NovelistsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are now following it up with Macaulay's articles of Clive ...Thomas Babington MacaulayEssays on Lord Clive And Warren HastingsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Adam Smith's "History of Astronomy", in his posthumous tracts, published by Dugald Stewart...'Thomas Green Adam SmithEssays on philosophical subjectsPrint: Book
1700-1799'[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading - I like this Book prodigiously Ma'am; the story of t...Susan Thrale James BeattieEssays on Poetry and Music Print: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 9th January, Mother tells me Hanley is to write a thesis on ?An Unemployed Man in January 1926?. Talking with Mother re Cambridge Economics. Advertising is ...Gerald Moore Belfort BaxEssays on SocialismPrint: Book
'[letter from Johnson to Boswell] 'The bearer of this is Dr. Dunbar, of Aberdeen, who has written and published a very ingenious book'.Samuel Johnson James DunbarEssays on the History of Mankind in Rude and Culti...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the First of Alison's "Two Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste". Taste, he defines, That faculty by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is sublime and be...Thomas Green Archibald AlisonEssays on the nature and principles of tastePrint: Book
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1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Archibald AlisonEssays on the Nature and Principles of TastePrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Mary Shepherd, c.July 1828: 'I am reduced to the necessity of offering my [italics]written[end italics] but warm thanks, for the valuable pre...Elizabeth Barrett Lady Mary ShepherdEssays on the Perception of an External UniversePrint: 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 Thomas ReidEssays on the Powers of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the principles of morality". The first is a sensible sort of bo...Thomas Carlyle Henry Home, Lord KamesEssays on the Principles of Morality and Natural R...Print: Book
1800-1849'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all things, I admire Mr Jeffrey's review of it, and also a r...Charlotte Bury Anne GrantEssays on the superstitions of the Highlanders of ...Print: Book
1850-1899'Essays on Pitt, E. [sic] of Chatham'Sarah Good Thomas Babington MacaulayEssays on William Pitt, Earl of ChathamPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 4 May 1774:] 'I do not recall any late productions in the literary way, except a little volume of very pretty Essays by Miss Aiki...Elizabeth Carter Anna Laetitia AikinEssays [?on Various Subjects]Print: Book


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