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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Jenkin's is the most copious and the best work I ever read in defence of divine revelation. It treats in a clear manner of the necessity of a divine revelation, antiqui...James Lackington Robert JenkinReasonableness and Certainty of the Christian Reli...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement for him - as I am very anxious for his being at once ...Jane Austen newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement for him - as I am very anxious for his being at once ...James anon Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1900-1945'Jessie's cooking book is written and quite ready and corrected with several Remarks, 130 recipes and Prefaces by yours truly-all wanting to be retyped nice and clean.[.....Joseph Conrad Jessie ConradA Handbook of Cookery for a Small House Manuscript: Sheet, final typescript and possibly earlier versions as well
1900-1945'Jinne Moore was awfully good at elocution. Was she better than I? I could make the girls cry when I read Dickens in the sewing class, and she couldn't.'Katherine Mansfield Charles Dickens Print: Book
1850-1899'Joan and I by ourselves in the evening played old tunes and read "Aladdin".'John Ruskin [unknown]AladdinPrint: Book
1900-1945'John Buchan was there, brisk and unpretentious, and the bluff and cordial Hugh Walpole, over whose new novel, "The Cathedral", I was to laugh and weep so rapturously in ...Vera Brittain Hugh WalpoleThe CathedralPrint: Book
1850-1899'John Paton was raised in the Aberdeen slums on a diet of penny dreadfuls ("good healthy stuff for an imaginative boy") and he found similar thrills in the Bible, at leas...John Paton [Old and New Testament]Print: Book
1850-1899'John Paton was raised in the Aberdeen slums on a diet of penny dreadfuls ("good healthy stuff for an imaginative boy") and he found similar thrills in the Bible, at leas...John Paton [penny dreadfuls]Print: Book
1800-1849'John Smith, Bob Hankinson, and I, went over the "Hebrew Melodies" together'.Thomas Babington Macaulay George Gordon, Lord ByronHebrew MelodiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'John was not only reading and quoting Lord Alfred Douglas at Marlborough. Ernest Betjeman [his father] was scandalized to discover that he was also corresponding with th...John Betjeman Alfred Douglas Print: Book
1700-1799'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family of Hanover. The authour of the celebrated "Heroick Ep...James Boswell William MasonHeroick Epistle to Sir William ChambersPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family of Hanover. The authour of the celebrated "Heroick Ep...Oliver Goldsmith William MasonHeroick Epistle to Sir William ChambersPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Johnson asked Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq., if he had read the Spanish translation of Sallust, said to be written by a Prince of Spain, with the assistance of his tutor,...Richard Owen Cambridge Sallust Print: Book
1700-1799'Johnson asked Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq., if he had read the Spanish translation of Sallust, said to be written by a Prince of Spain, with the assistance of his tutor,...Samuel Johnson VirgilAeneidPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson had said that he could repeat a complete chapter of "The Natural History of Iceland", from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus:-- "CH...Samuel Johnson Niels HorebowNatural history of Iceland, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson had with him upon this jaunt, "Il Palmerino d'Inghilterra", a romance praised by Cervantes; but did not like it much. He said, he read it for the language, by wa...Samuel Johnson Francisco de MoraisIl Palmerino d'InghilterraPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die a violent death, as has been generally fancied. He ...Samuel Johnson Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson praised "The Spectator," particularly the character of Sir Roger de Coverley. He said, "Sir Roger did not die a violent death, as has been generally fancied. He ...Samuel Johnson Joseph AddisonSpectator, The [Roger de Coverley essays]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and the conduct of the story; and it has had the best evi...Samuel Johnson John BunyanPilgrim's Progress, ThePrint: Book


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