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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful, and only wished that he had more fully carried his...Thomas Carter Washington IrvingSketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, GentPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful, and only wished that he had more fully carried his...Thomas Carter Mark AkensidePleasures of the Imagination, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful, and only wished that he had more fully carried his...Thomas Carter [n/a]London MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the course of the summer of this year [1856] an article appeared in the pages of the "Quarterly Review," upon Mr. Grote's "History of Greece," taken collectively as...George Grote William SmithArticle on George Grote's History of GreecePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary'...Thomas Carter Thomas ReidEssays on the Powers of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary'...Thomas Carter Dante AlighieriThe Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and ParadisePrint: Book
1800-1849'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary'...Thomas Carter William JowettChristian Researches in the Mediterranean, from MD...Print: Book
1800-1849'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary'...Thomas Carter Dugald StewartElements of the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849'in the Course of this summer one day I took the Bible to read and happened on the 54th Chapt of Isaiah a chapt I had never noticed before and as I read it I had such a g...Joseph Mayett [n/a]Book of IsaiahPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the day read part of "The Universal Magazine" for December, and in the evening read a pamphlet entitled "Primitive Christianity propounded or an Essay To revive the A...Thomas Turner Daniel DobelPrimitive Christianity propounded; or an essay to ...Print: Pamphlet
1700-1799'In the day read part of "The Universal Magazine" for December, and in the evening read a pamphlet entitled "Primitive Christianity propounded or an Essay To revive the A...Thomas Turner The Universal Magazine of knowledge and pleasurePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In the day read part of Bracken's "Pocket Farrier", which I look upon as a very complete thing of its kind.'Thomas Turner Henry BrackenThe traveller's pocket-farrier: or a treatise upon...Print: Book
1700-1799'In the day read part of Burn's "Justice".'Thomas Turner Richard BurnThe Justice of the Peace and Parish OfficerPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the day read part of several new almanacs which came down today, and I doubt but few will be sold by reason of the additional duty of one penny on the sheets, and two...Thomas Turner [almanacs]Print: Broadsheet, Pamphlet, almanac
1700-1799'In the day read part of some "Monitors" lent me by Mr Calverley, but which paper the author endeavours to point out the only way to restore this nation to its former str...Thomas Turner The Monitor; or the British FreeholderPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In the day read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man". And in the even Tho. Davy at our house to whom I read part of Sherlock on death.'Thomas Turner Richard AllestreeThe whole new duty of man, containing the faith as...Print: Book
1700-1799'In the day read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man". And in the even Tho. Davy at our house to whom I read part of Sherlock on death.'Thomas Turner William SherlockA practical discourse concerning deathPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the day read part of the 1st volume of "The Peerage of England".'Thomas Turner Arthur CollinsThe peerage of EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the depressed steelworks town of Merthyr Tydfil between the world wars, schoolboys were baffled by A Christmas Carol: "for one thing, we never could understand why it...Welsh schoolboysCharles DickensA Christmas CarolPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the dimness I had missed - how could I have done! - a few lines of crabbed writing at the very top of the paper, separated from those below by a blank space and a thi...Ralph Glasser [n/a][Oxford Finals Class Lists]Print: Poster


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