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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity wi...Sydney Smith Henry FearonNarrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Thro...Print: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity wi...Sydney Smith John BradburyTravels in the Interior of America in the years 18...Print: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity wi...Sydney Smith John PalmerJournal of Travels in the United States of North A...Print: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity wi...Sydney Smith Francis HallJournal of Travels in the United States of North A...Print: Book
1800-1849'Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is not candid. If a man chuses to say: I will live up t...Sydney Smith Morris BirkbeckNotes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Vi...Print: Book
1800-1849'Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is not candid. If a man chuses to say: I will live up t...Sydney Smith Morris BirkbeckLetters from IllinoisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Fielding's "Life of Jonathan Wild"; a caustic satire, in Swift's coarsest manner...'Thomas Green Henry FieldingThe life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the GreatPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished the perusal of the first Six Books of Milton's "Paradise Lost". The scene betwixt Satan, Sin, and Death, in the 2d. Book, is transcendantly sublime...'Thomas Green John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the 4th. and last Book of Fielding's "Joseph Andrews". I see no necessity for the marvellous in incident, at the conclusion of this Novel...'Thomas Green Henry FieldingThe history of the adventures of Joseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Fielding's "Amelia". There is a still stronger and more disgusting taint of vulgarity, in this Novel, than in Joseph Andrews...'Thomas Green Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished the 1st Book of Dr. Hey's "Lectures in Divinity". His manner struck me as stiff and perplexed, at first: but this wears off, as I advance...'Thomas Green John HeyLectures in divinityPrint: Book
1800-1849'Perused the "Farmer's Boy"; a rural Poem, by Robert Bloomfield; edited by Capel Lofft...'Thomas Green Robert BloomfieldThe farmer?s boyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Pearson's "Remarks on the Theory of Morals"...'Thomas Green Edward PearsonRemarks on the Theory of MoralsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished the "Aeneid". Virgil's excellence, it is obvious, consists, not in the daring flights of a vigorous and sublime imagination, but in the exquitie art and consum...Thomas Green VirgilAeniedPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Godwin's "St. Leon". In the Preface, he explicitly abjures the doctrine of extinguishing the private affections, which he had inculcated in his Political Justice.....Thomas Green William GodwinSt Leon, a tale of the sixteenth centuryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read, after a long intermission (April 27, 1797) the 2d volume of Gregory's "Essays"...'Thomas Green James GregoryPhilosophical and literary essaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Looked into Marsh's "Michaelis"...'Thomas Green Johann David MichaelisIntroduction to the New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Frend's "Animadversions" on Prettyman's Theology:--more temperate and chastised than I expected...'Thomas Green William FrendAnimadversions on the elements of Christian theolo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Finished Porson's "Letters to Travis", on the disputed passage in John...'Thomas Green Richard PorsonLetters to Mr. Archdeacon TravisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished a perusal of Warton's "Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope"...'Thomas Green Joseph WartonEssay on the Genius and Writings of PopePrint: Book


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