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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'and thence home, where to supper and then to read a little; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'But I fell to read a book (Boyle's "Hydrostatickes") aloud in my chamber and let her talk till she was tired, and vexed that I would not hear her'Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so home and there to the office a little; and thence to my chamber to read and supper, and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'This day I read (shown me by Mr Gibson) a discourse newly come forth, of the King of France his pretence to Flanders; which is a very fine discourse, and the turth is, h...Samuel Pepys [unknown]A dialogue concerning the rights of His Most Chris...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then to my boat again and home, reading and making an end of the book I lately bought, a merry Satyre called "The Visions", translated from Spanish by Le Strange; wh...Samuel Pepys Roger L'Estrange [translator]The visions of Don Francisco de QuevedoPrint: Book
1600-1699'So I homeward, as long as it was light reading Mr Boyles book of "Hydrostatickes", which is a most excellent book as ever I read; and I will take much pains to understan...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence we read and laughed at Lillys prophecies this month - in his almanac this year.'Samuel Pepys William LillyMerlini Anglici EphemerisPrint: Book, almanac
1600-1699'and then home to my chamber to read and write; and then to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up, and I to my chamber, and there all morning reading in my Lord Cooke's "Pleas of the Crowne", very fine noble reading.'Samuel Pepys Sir Edward CokeThe third part of the Institutes of the Laws of En...Print: Book
1600-1699'Fen read me an order of council passed the 17th instant, directing all the Treasurers of any part of the King's revenue to make no payments but such as shall be approved... [unknown][order of council]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and so away presently very merry, and fell to reading of the several "Advices to a Painter", which made us good sport; and endeed are very witty'Samuel Pepys Andrew MarvellThe second and third advice to a painter, for draw...Print: Book
1600-1699'and Creed did also repeat to me some of the substance of letters of old Burleigh in Queen Elizabeth's time which he hath of late read in the printed "Cabbala", which is ...John Creed [unknown]Cabala, sive Scrinia SacraPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so we home to supper, and I read myself asleep and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to supper and to read myself asleep, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so the women and W. Hewer and I walked upon the Downes, where a flock of sheep was, and the most pleasant and innocent sight that ever I saw in my life; we find a sh...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so with very much pleasure down to Gravesend, all the way with extraordinary content reading of Boyl's "Hydrostatickes", which the more I read and understand, the mo...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then to my chamber to read, and so to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to my chamber and read the history of 88 in Speede, in order to my seeing the play thereof acted tomorrow at the King's House.'Samuel Pepys John SpeedThe history of Great BritainePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to my chamber to read; and then to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I home to supper and to read a little and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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