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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'On Thursday, April 8, I sat a good part of the evening with him, but he was very silent. He said, "Burnet's 'History of his own Times' is very entertaining. The style, i...Samuel Johnson Gilbert BurnetHistory of My Own TimePrint: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton unknownHistory of NaplesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Lanfrey's memoirs of Napoleon I. It is refreshing to read a Frenchman's book who cares nothing for ''la gloire''... 'Emma Darwin Pierre LanfreyHistory of Napoleon IPrint: Book
1800-1849'Procured the loan of Bridge's [sic] "History of Northamptonshire" from Birdsall's Library in order to consult it for my "History of Wellingborough".'John Cole BridgesHistory of NorthamptonshirePrint: Book
1800-1849'Extracted from Bridges. Looked over the Acct. of Croyland Abbey, which supplied me with a hint for the Acct. of Wellingbro' Church, which I added [...] I looked over Par...John Cole Ian BridgesHistory of NorthamptonshirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook George Peabody GoochHistory of Our Time, 1855–1911Print: Book
1900-1945I have just read a 1/- book — History of our own Times 1885-1913. It is a kind of Lords Modern Europe written in a somewhat different style and embracing the whole ...Arthur Morris George Peabody GoochHistory of Our Time, 1885-1913
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill Robert WatsonHistory of Philip IIIPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and Geor...Richard Pyke George Henry LewesHistory of PhilosophyPrint: 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 William EnfieldHistory of Philosophy, From the Earliest Times to ...Print: Book
'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be Fed & defended by the fearless Cock. whereas the Cock hates the Chickens,...Hester Lynch Thrale Thomas PennantHistory of Quadrupeds.Print: Book
1700-1799'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English language is capable, leads us through the most importa...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonHistory of Rasselas, Prince of AbissiniaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night the following passage from the letter which I had la...David Dalrymple Samuel JohnsonHistory of Rasselas, Prince of AbissiniaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I told him, that his "Rasselas" had often made me unhappy; for it represented the misery of human life so well, and so convincingly to a thinking mind, that if at any ti...James Boswell Samuel JohnsonHistory of Rasselas, Prince of AbissiniaPrint: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] I lately read Rasselas over again with great satisfaction'.James Boswell Samuel JohnsonHistory of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia , thePrint: Book
1850-1899'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on "Infidelity; its As...anon Jonathan Edwards [?]History of RedemptionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all life, or almost alive; they are admirably true to nat...John Cole J.S. PiercyHistory of RetfordPrint: Book
1850-1899Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my teachers -- I know I was reading Pinnock's "History of ...Andrew Lang PinnockHistory of RomePrint: Book
1850-1899'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's oppression of the Netherlands, and gave as its source,...John Paton Christian Matthias Theodor MommsenHistory of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsmith's histories of England and Rome - but their basi...Robert Collyer Oliver GoldsmithHistory of RomePrint: Book


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