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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the books with which the shelves were stored. The "Age o...Charles Manby Smith Bishop WatsonApology for the biblePrint: Book
1800-1849'If among the books of divinity that you are so kindly offered the use of, you can borrow any of the following, they will help to establish you in the belief of the truth...James Lackington Bishop WatsonApology for the Bible, in Letters to Thomas PainePrint: Book
1850-1899'...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloomy, funeral poems of an order as wholly out of date a...Edmund Gosse Bishop Beilby PorteusDeathPrint: Book
1850-1899'During those melancholy weeks at Pimlico, I read aloud another work of the same nature as those of Habershon and Jukes, the "Horae Apocalypticae" of a Mr. Elliott. This ...Edmund Gosse Bishop Edward ElliottHorae ApocalypticaePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary read) and Bishop Hall.'Wordsworth FamilyBishop Joseph HallunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 February, 1802: 'Darkish when we reached home [from walk] ... William now reading in Bishop Hall ...'William Wordsworth Bishop Joseph HallunknownPrint: Book
1600-1699'after dinner ... hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr Cartwright and the Bushoppe of Canterberies booke'Richard Rhodes Bishop of Canterbury[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Saturday. Received a P.C. from joe James. Cold day. No parcel for me. Read "The Continental Times" Bundle of drivel lies. Did some French. Read The Cantonment...William Thomas Bithia M. CrokerThe Old Cantonment: With Other Stories of India an...Print: Book
1900-1945'10 a.m. Service. Read Mrs Murphy & also a Rolling Stone by BM Croker. Walked a little. All's well.'William Thomas Bithia M. CrokerA Rolling StonePrint: Book
1850-1899'Sept. (Trans. into German)'Sarah Good Bjornstjerne BjornsonEin Frohlicher BurschPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sept. Trans. from Norwegian by Eliz. Carmichael. A very strange book. I don't care for it at all.'Sarah Good Bjørnstjerne BjørnsonIn God's WayPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Blaise PascalLes ProvincialesPrint: Book
1850-1899'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed through the workhouse; read the pestilent literature of ...anon Blaise Pascal[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I was reading Pascal's "lettres provinciales". None can help admiring his wit & probity. He sustains excellently the character of [italics]naivet?[end italics]which he h...Thomas Carlyle Blaise PascalLes Provinciales, ou les lettresPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of these rooms shall I die in? Which is going to be the ...Virginia Woolf Blaise PascalunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Pal...James Lackington Blaise PascalThoughts on Religion and Other SubjectsPrint: Book
'In the interval between morning and evening service, he [Johnson] endeavoured to employ himself earnestly in devotional exercises; and as he has mentioned in his "Prayer...James Boswell Blaise PascalPenseesPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincia...Oscar Wilde Blaise PascalPenseesPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and "De Civitate Dei"; Pascal, "Pensees" and "Provincia...Oscar Wilde Blaise PascalProvincial LettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Except Shakespeare, who grew from childhood as part of myself, nearly every classic has come with this same shock of almost intolerable enthusiasm: Virgil, Sophocle...Freya Stark Blaise Pascal[unknown]Print: Unknown


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