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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 Robert Louis StevensonKidnappedPrint: Book
1700-1799'In one of his little memorandum-books I find the following hints for his intended "Review or Literary Journal": "[italics] The Annals of Literature, foreign as well as ...James Boswell Samuel Johnson[memoranda for a projected literary journal]Manuscript: Codex, memorandum book
1700-1799'in one of the Sermons on Social Duties, published lately by a [italics] real [end italics] Divine, he makes this Observation, That he believes, very few Women have eithe...Laetitia Pilkington Patrick DelanyFifteen Sermons upon Social DutiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'In one of the thoughtful editorials to which readers of the "Irish Homestead" are accustomed, I find condensed into a single phrase the idea which I have been struggling...Ian Vivian Hay George William Russell[editorial in the "Irish Homestead"]Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: SheetUnknown
1850-1899'In one of the yards we noticed...an old man of eighty, with hair as white as the prison walls themselves, and which was especially striking from the generality of prison...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'In order to pass the BA examination, it was also necessary to get up Paley's "Evidences of Christianity" and his "Moral Philosophy". This was done in a thorough manner, ...Charles Darwin William PaleyA View of the Evidences of ChristianityPrint: Book
1800-1849'In order to pass the BA examination, it was also necessary to get up Paley's "Evidences of Christianity" and his "Moral Philosophy". This was done in a thorough manner.....Charles Darwin William PaleyPrinciples of Moral and Political PhilosophyPrint: Book
1850-1899'In our lighter moods, we turned to the "Book of Revelation", and chased the phantom of Popery through its fuliginous pages.'Philip Gosse [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'In Page 153 of the 2d Volume of Thraliana [p252], I hazarded a Conjecture that the Worms were often in old Times, & even now perhaps in popish Countries, mistaken for De...Hester Lynch Thrale  Print: Book
1900-1945'In parenthesis, I hope you'll like Mrs Sara Jeannette [Duncan]. I thought her charming and she was so kind to us [in Calcutta]. She longs to know you. Read "A Voyage of ...Gertrude Bell Sara Jeannette Duncan (Mrs Cotes)A Social departure: How Orthodocia and I went roun...Print: Book
1600-1699'In Pauls churchyard I called at Kirton's; and there they had got a Masse book for me, which I bought and cost me 12s. And when I came home, sat up late and read in it - ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Masse BookPrint: Book
1700-1799'In perusing an abridgment of the "Life of Madame de Maintenon" in "The Universal Magazine" for March, I find the following, being the advice given her by her mother Mada...Thomas Turner The Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasurePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In puzzled words Raymond Gram Swing commented in "Harper's Magazine" on "the complete refusal of the British public to face the serious facts of their decline", while Ha...Vera Brittain Raymond SwingHarper's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In reading "The Gazette" for the 22nd instant I find the King of Prussia, with about 20,000, has beat the combined forces of the empire and France, which were about 60,0...Thomas Turner The London GazettePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'In reading "The History of England" I find that England first took that name under Egbert the 1st monarch of England after the Saxon Heptarchy, anno 801.'Thomas Turner anonThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'In reading Franklin's correspondence, it is impossible not to be entertained by his lively style and I think not to be convinced that he did all in his power to prevent ...Benjamin Newton Benjamin FranklenThe private correspondencePrint: Book
1850-1899'In reading Horace at breakfast, planned the form in which to gather my work on him'John Ruskin Horace[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'In reading Josephus's "Jewish Antiques" I find his opinion was (or at least it was a prevailing notion in his time) that the earth was the centre of the planetary system...Thomas Turner Flavius JosephusThe antiques of the JewsPrint: Book
1700-1799'In reading the "Odyssey" last night among many curious passages these two lines I think applicable to the present times, Viz, "why cease ye then ye wreath of Heaven to s...Thomas Turner HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1850-1899'In reading the last number of the "Mercure [de France]" I had a moment of very lively pleasure, and I owe it to you. Thanks. you have given your opinion in words that g...Joseph Conrad Mercure de France Print: Serial / periodical


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