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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have not yet distributed all your books [presumably a new edition of the "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland"]. Lord Hailes a...James Burnett, Lord Monboddo Samuel JohnsonJourney to the Western Islands of ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] What do you say of Lord Chesterfield's "Memoirs and last Letters"?' James Boswell Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldMemoirs and Last LettersPrint: Book
1700-1799' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] Without doubt you have read what is called "The Life of David Hume", written by himself, with the letter from Dr. Adam Smith subjoined ...James Boswell David HumeMy Own LifePrint: Book
1700-1799' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excellent. I agreed with you on every one of them. He him...David Dalrymple David Dalrymple, Lord HailesAnnals of ScotlandManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excellent. I agreed with you on every one of them. He him...Samuel Johnson David Dalrymple, Lord HailesAnnals of ScotlandManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [Letter from Boswell to Johnson] Your critical notes on the specimen of Lord Hailes's "Annals of Scotland" are excellent. I agreed with you on every one of them. He him...James Boswell David Dalrymple, Lord HailesAnnals of ScotlandManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [letter from Johnson to bookseller Mr Dilly] There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the booksellers on the bridge, and which I must entreat you t...Samuel Johnson Richard BurtonAdmirable Curiosities, Rarities, and Wonders in En...Print: Book
1700-1799' [letter from Johnson to bookseller Mr Dilly] There is in the world a set of books which used to be sold by the booksellers on the bridge, and which I must entreat you t...Samuel Johnson Richard BaxterCall to the Unconverted to Turn and LivePrint: Book
1700-1799' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Dr. Blair is printing some sermons. If they are all like the first, which I have read, they are [italics] sermones aurei, ac auro magis...Samuel Johnson Hugh Blair[A Sermon]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [Letter from Johnson to Boswell] Last night I corrected the last page of our "Journey to the Hebrides".' Samuel Johnson Samuel JohnsonJourney to the Western Islands of Scotland. Print: proofs
1700-1799' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Please to return Dr. Blair thanks for his sermons. The Scotch write English wonderfully well.'Samuel Johnson Hugh BlairSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Since I wrote, I have looked over Mr. Maclaurin's plea, and think it excellent. [ a legal case Boswell was involved in] How is the suit...Samuel Johnson [legal documents relating to Mr Maclaurin]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [letter from Sir Alexander Dick to Johnson] I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland", which you was so goo...Alexander Dick Samuel JohnsonJourney to the Western Islands of ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799' [letter from Sir Alexander Dick to Johnson] I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your "Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland", which you was so goo...Alexander Dick James BoswellAn Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to Th...Print: Book
1700-1799' [publisher Mr Strahan] received from Johnson on Christmas-eve, a note in which was the following paragraph: "I have read over Dr. Blair's first sermon with more tha...Samuel Johnson Hugh Blair[a sermon]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'" " (not finished)' [The ditto marks are below the words 'Aug.Grand']Sarah Good Elisabeth WernerFruhlingsbotenPrint: Book
1850-1899'" " (Swedish)' [The ditto marks are below the words 'Aug.Grand']Sarah Good Tor HedbergEtt EldprofPrint: Book
1900-1945'"...Women were wandering about half-crazy," stated an account in the Swiss newspaper, "National-Zeitung", and a stoker who deserted from a German ship told the Stockholm...Vera Brittain National-ZeitungPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'"A hive of bees natives of New South Wales [...] The bees are very small and have no sting but their honey is peculiarly fine" "Stamford Mercury"'John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'"A little book we had in the house" led him, "Almost as early as I can remember", to develop an interest in astronomy; and Lempriere's "Classical Dctionary" "Fell into m...Alfred Edward Housman [unknown][book on astronomy]Print: Book


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