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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha...D.R. Davies Adam Smith Print: Book
1900-1945'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the explo...James Clunie Adam SmithWealth of NationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,...Joseph Toole Adam Smith[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s "Political Economy". This was not a kind of literat...Thomas Burt Adam SmithWealth of NationsPrint: 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 Adam SmithThe Wealth of NationsPrint: 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
1800-1849'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godwin's "Enquirer", and a great deal of Adam Smith. As ...Sydney Smith Adam Smith[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Thursday March 16th. [...] Read the Life of Adam Smith [makes notes on this] [...] In Smith's Treatise concerning the Imitative Arts I find the following: "The Minuet,...Claire Clairmont Adam SmithTreatise on the Imitative ArtsPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 30 October -7 November 1793: 'In this interval however my baggage has arrived & no poor devil at the foot of the gallows was more overj...Robert Southey Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 3-4 November 1793: 'I am reading Adam Smith on the Wealth of Nations.'Robert Southey Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1850-1899'I know I shall never be wise enough in a tete a tete with a girl who does not read poetry & novels but Adam Smith, Niall etc. & "has no sense of humour but takes everyth...Miss Thompson Adam Smith[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'Rose at 7 [...] Sat reading Smith's "Wealth of Nations" until 8.'George Grote Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 8. Read once again the "Dissertation on Virtue" which is subjoined to Butler...George Grote Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on ...George Grote Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on ...George Grote Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Smith's "Wealth of Nations" in evening: the most naive assumption of Nature that ever was'John Ruskin Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Adam WeishauptPythagorasPrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Adam WeishauptUeber Wahrheit und sittliche VollkommenheitPrint: Book
1850-1899'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, histo...Joseph Conrad Adam Bernard Mickiewicz de PorajPan TadeuzPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayist with special reference to Literature and Dogma in ...Adelaide Morland Adelaide Morland[paper on Matthew Arnold as poet]Manuscript: Unknown


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