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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Finished Moore's "Zeluco". The character is will contrived to purge the selfish and malignant passions, by exhibiting the hideous effect of their unrestricted indulgenc...Thomas Green John MooreZeluco. Various views of human naturePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Pope's five "Ethic Epistles" or "Moral Essays". There is an occasional pertness and flippancy in them, not to my taste...'Thomas Green Alexander PopeMoral EpistlesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Moore's "Edward". The outset of this novel delighted me highly; but as it advances, the interest declines...'Thomas Green John MooreEdward. Various views of human naturePrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked into Whitehurst's "Theory of the Earth". His hypothesis is, That our globe was originally a confused mass of all the elements; That from gravitation and elective...Thomas Green John WhitehurstAn inquiry into the original state and formation o...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the 1st Part of Price's "Essay on the Picturesque"...'Thomas Green Uvedale PriceAn essay on the picturesquePrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked over Gilpin's Two Essay[s]; on Picturesque Beauty, and Picturesque Travel...'Thomas Green William GilpinThree EssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'There is a great Peer in our neighbourhood, who gives me the run of his library while he is in town; and I am fetching up my arrears in books, which everybody (who reads...Sydney Smith August von KotzebueDas merkw?rdigste Jahr meines LebensPrint: Book
1800-1849'With Madame de Staal's Memoirs, so strongly praised by the excellent Baron Grimm, I was a good deal disappointed: she has nothing to tell and does not tell it very well....Sydney Smith Marguerite de Launay, Baronne de StaalMemoiresPrint: Book
1800-1849'I see your name mentioned among the writers in Constable's Encyclopaedia; pray tell me what articles you have written: I shall always read anything which you write. The ...Sydney Smith Archibald Constable [ed.]Encyclopaedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have now read three volumes of Madame de Sevigne - with a conviction that her letters are very much overpraised. Mr Thomas Grenville says he has made seven vigorous at...Sydney Smith Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book with some good sense in it, and not unentertaining; al...Sydney Smith William JacobTravels in the South of SpainPrint: Book
1800-1849'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book with some good sense in it, and not unentertaining; al...Sydney Smith Benjamin FranklinThe Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, L...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have just read Dugald Stewart's "Preliminary Dissertations". In the first place, it is totally clear of all his defects. No insane dread of misrepresentation; no discu...Sydney Smith Dugald Stewart[Dissertation printed in the Encyclopaedia Britann...Print: Book
1800-1849'I speak of books as I read them, and I read them as I can get them. You are read up to twelve o' clock of the preceding day, and therefore must pardon the staleness of m...Sydney Smith [unknown][evidence of Elgin Marble Committee]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'My astonishment was very great at readind Canning's challenge to the anonymous pamphleteer. If it were the first proof of the kind it would be sufficient to create a gen...Sydney Smith George Canning[Canning's letter to newspapers attavking an anony...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have read Georgel and must say I have seldom read a more stupid book. The first volume in which he relates what he had seen and observed himself is well enough, but th...Sydney Smith Jean Francois GeorgelM?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements d...Print: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read the first and second volumes of the Abbe Georgel's Memoirs. You will suppose, from this advice, that there is something improper in the third and...Sydney Smith Jean Francois GeorgelM?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements d...Print: Book
1800-1849'There is a grat difference of opinion about Scott's new novel. At Holland House it is much run down: I dare not oppose my opinion to such an assay or proof-house; but it...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very desirous to hear what your Vote is about Walter Scott; I think it excellent, quite as good as any of his novels excepting that in which Claverhouse is introduc...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'Brougham's pamphlet accidentally happens to be very dull. It is not of much importance but there was no absolute necessity for its being so. Wit and declamation would be...Sydney Smith Henry BroughamA Letter to SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY, MP from H. BROUGHA...Print: Pamphlet


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