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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Pal...James Lackington Joseph AddisonEvidence of the Christian ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Amongst others, I have had Keith on the Evidences of Prophecy put into my hands, and a most masterly and striking performance it is. Totally dissimilar from Newton on th...Sarah Harriet Burney Alexander KeithEvidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion, d...Print: Book
1800-1849'Too hoarse to do duty [at church] Read Paley's Evidences'.Benjamin Newton William PaleyEvidences of ChristianityPrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington PaleyEvidences of ChristianityPrint: Book
1800-1849At Kirk as usual. Spent the rest of the day and evening reading Addison's Evidences of the Christian ReligionAdam Mackie Joseph AddisonEvidences of the Christian ReligionPrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington AddisonEvidences of the Christian ReligionPrint: Book
1900-1945Brief marginal notes in pencil in English throughout the volume.Vernon Lee Patrick GeddesEvolutionPrint: Book
1900-1945'After tea I completed my notes on this subject and then finished a book I was reading, "The Evolution of Love", by Emil Lucka. He treats the subject in a sort of histori...Emil LuckaEvolution of love, ThePrint: 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 respect to my occupations at this period; they are not of the most important nature. Berzelius' paper is printed - I was this day correcting the proof-sheet-. The...Thomas Carlyle Baron Jacob BerzeliusExamination of some compounds which depend upon ve...Print: Proof-sheet
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker "...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in skill, told me he had been so reduced in the world by t...anon ExaminerPrint: Broadsheet, Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou...Thomas Carter [n/a]ExaminerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I was pleased to see in the Examiner a mention of the pension [to be granted to Hunt]' [letter to Leigh Hunt]Mary Shelley [n/a]ExaminerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Did you get Meister; did they get them at Annan? It is slowly and sparingly coming forth here: I see it in the windows of the principal booksellers - there was a kind o...Thomas Carlyle Examiner (Newspaper Chat section)Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'she [Charlotte Bronte] was very angry indeed with that part of the Examiner review of Esmond (I had forgotten it) which said his [Thackeray's] works would not live; and ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Examiner [review of Thackeray's 'Henry Esmond']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'she [Charlotte Bronte] was very angry indeed with that part of the Examiner review of Esmond (I had forgotten it) which said his [Thackeray's] works would not live; and ...Charlotte Bronte Examiner [review of Thackeray's 'Henry Esmond']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'I saw two sections of Hazlitt's Review [of William Wordsworth, The Excursion, in the Examiner] at Rydale, and...Dorothy Wordsworth Examiner, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 21 April 1813: 'I see the Examiner threatens some observations upon you next week ... 'George Gordon, Lord Byron Leigh HuntExaminer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read Hunt's journal, which is extremely interesting'Mary Shelley Leigh HuntExaminer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I looked in last week's Examiner thinking there [italics] might [end italics] be an advertisement of the Professor. When do you think it will be out?'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Examiner, ThePrint: Serial / periodical


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