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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'. George Eliot [pseud] Nathaniel WraxallHistorical MemoirsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Looking at Galiffe's tour - he has a curious theory that the language of old Rome was Russian.'John Ruskin James GaliffeItaly and its inhabitants: an account of a tour in...Print: Book
'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here now are two speeches ascribed to him, both of which w...Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson[speeches attributed to Lord Chesterfield]Print: Book
'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here now are two speeches ascribed to him, both of which w...Samuel Johnson Henry Home, Lord KamesSketches of the History of ManPrint: Book
'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here now are two speeches ascribed to him, both of which w...Samuel Johnson Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Englan...Print: Book
1800-1849'Looking at Sismondi's "Italian Republics" an odd fit of industry came over me in the morning.'John Ruskin Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de SismondiItalian RepublicsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of painters!) - I open it at 39. i. about Bp Bossuet's wo...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Ezekiel)Print: Book
1850-1899'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of painters!) - I open it at 39. i. about Bp Bossuet's wo...John Ruskin John James RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1800-1849'Looking this evening at Jacob Bryant's remarks on history of Isaiah; fanciful, but very interesting.'John Ruskin Jacob BryantTreatise on the Authenticity of the ScripturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Looks at cartoon first. "Oh, quite right, you know. It is these people who - I love those two. Yes". Turns to Priestley quotation, "He's come out lately, this Priestley,... anonInternees LeafletPrint: Pamphlet
1700-1799'Lord Bolingbroke said he learned Spanish so as to read & write Letters in it with only three Weeks Application, - Baretti said the same of Miss Horneck - I suppose both ...Hester Lynch Thrale Joseph SpenceAnecdotesManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Lord Byron, to whom Mr. Murray sent a copy of [Belzoni's] work, said: "Belzoni [italics]is[end italics] a grand traveller, and his English is very prettily broken."' George Gordon Lord Byron Giovanni BelzoniNarrative of the Operations and recent Discoveries...Print: Book
1700-1799'Lord Chesterfield's letters being mentioned, Johnson said, "It was not to be wondered at that they had so great a sale, considering that they were the letters of a state...Samuel Johnson Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldLetters to his SonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There is a pamphlet on Bullion by Mr Copplestone of Oxford...Sydney Smith James McIntosh[Review in Edinburgh Review of Bentham's Plan of P...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There is a pamphlet on Bullion by Mr Copplestone of Oxford...Sydney Smith Edward Copleston[Review in Edinburgh Review of Ricardo on Currency...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Lord Grey's despatches have arrived...[prisoners gather to hear proclamation read aloud] when Captain Bance unfolded his papers the burliest burglar held his breath for ...Captain Bance Lord Grey[Dispatch from the Government respecting fate of c...Manuscript: Sheet
1700-1799'Lord Hailes had sent him a present of a curious little printed poem, on repairing the University of Aberdeen, by David [italics] Malloch [end italics], which he thought ...Samuel Johnson David Mallet[a poem about Aberdeen]Print: Unknown
'Lord Kaimes again tells us a wild Story of Savages who eat all their own children & have done so for six Hundred Years backward - he then begins gravely to argue about p...Hester Lynch Thrale Henry Home, Lord KamesSketches of the History of ManPrint: Book
1700-1799'Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues he deemed a nugatory performance. "That man, (said he,) sat down to write a book, to tell the world what the world had all his life been telli...Samuel Johnson George, first Lord LytteltonDialogues of the DeadPrint: Book
1700-1799'Lord, Ma'am, I was so entertained & I was quite ill, too, Ma'am, quite ill when I read it! - but for all that, Lord, Ma'am, why I was as eager, -& I wanted sadly to see ...Victoria Kynaston Frances BurneyEvelinaPrint: Book


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