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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Read Spry's account of India - and believe if you can (I do) that within 150 mles of Calcutta there is a nation of Cannibals living in trees. It is an amusing Book.'Sydney Smith Henry Harpur SpryModern IndiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very deep in Lord Stowell's "Reports", and if it were wartime I should officiate as Judge of the Admiralty Court. It was a fine business to make a public law for al...Sydney Smith William, Baron Stowell Scott[reports of cases in the Admiralty Court]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I am reading again Madame du Deffand. God forbid I should be as much in love with anybody (yourself excepted) as the poor woman was with Horace Walpole!'Sydney Smith (ed.) Mary Berry[letters of Mme. du Deffand to Horace Walpole]Print: Book
1800-1849'I read Guizot's Washington in the Summer; nothing can be better, more succinct more judicious, more true more just; but I think I have done with reviewing'.Sydney Smith M. Guizot'Washington: par M. Guizot'Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read Susan Hopley - the incidents are improbable but the Book took me on - and I kept reading it'.Sydney Smith [Mrs] CroweSusan HopleyPrint: Book
1800-1849I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'Sydney Smith Philip DoddridgeThe Family ExpositorPrint: Book
1800-1849I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'Sydney Smith [anon]The Scholar ArmedPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'Sydney Smith [unknown]The Dissenter Tripped UpPrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Pray Read the first Vol of Elphinstone's India - the News from China gives me the greatest pleasure. I am for bombarding all the exclusive Asiatics who shut up the Earth...Sydney Smith Mountstuart ElphinstoneHistory of IndiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'You should read Napier's two little volumes of the war in Portugal. He is an heroic fellow, equal to anything in Plutarch; and moreover a long-headed, clever hero, who t...Sydney Smith Charles NapierAn account of the war in Portugal between Don Pedr...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read "A Life in the Forest", skipping nimbly; but there is much of good in it'.Sydney Smith unknownA Life in the ForestPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Macaulay's Lays? they are very much liked. I have read some but I abor all Grecian and Roman subjects'.Sydney Smith Thomas Babington MacaulayLays of Ancient RomePrint: Book
1800-1849'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies and clergymen'.Sydney Smith Honore de BalzacPere GoriotPrint: Book
1800-1849'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies and clergymen'.Sydney Smith Honore de BalzacLa Messe de l'AtheePrint: Book
1800-1849'You have been so used to these sort of impertinences, that I believe you will exuse me for saying how very much I am pleased with the first number of your new work. Peck...Sydney Smith Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I hope you like Horner's "Life". It succeeds extremely well here. It is full of all the exorbitant and impracticable views so natural to young men at Edinburgh; but ther...Sydney Smith Leonard HornerMemoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P.Print: Book
1800-1849'Tell William Murray, with my kindest regards, to get for you, when he comes to town, a book called "Arabiniana, or Remains of Mr Serjeant Arabin", - very witty and humor...Sydney Smith Theobald MathewArabiniana, or Remains of Mr Serjeant ArabinPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just read Miss Martineau's "Sick Room". I cannot understand it. It is so sublime, and mystical that I frequently cannot guess at her meaning; all that I can find ...Sydney Smith Harriet MartineauLife in the Sick RoomPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think Channing an admirable writer, so much eloquence so much sense so much command of Language; yet admirable as his Sermon on War is, I have the Vanity to think my o...Sydney Smith William Ellery Channing[sermon on War]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Has Lord Grey read the Edinburgh Review? the article on Barrere is by Macaulay, that upon Lord St Vincent by Barrow; I thnk this latter very entertaining, but it was har...Sydney Smith [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical


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