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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's "Ancient History", in six volumes. I wanted something to read. I had no one to ...John B. Gough Charles RollinAncient HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Now that you have finished Rollin, I think you ought to begin some other book on general literature, directed if possible like it, in some degree to the progress of your...John A. Carlyle Charles RollinHistoire ancienne des Egyptiennes, des Carthaginoi...Print: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday Sept. [...] 14th. [...] After dinner play with the children, & read Rollin. After tea [...] read Catholic deputation with Mr. Gambs in Hessey & Taylor's Mon...Claire Clairmont Charles RollinunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adhering to the plan you have sketched for me. This I ...Jane Baillie Welsh Charles RollinThe Ancient HistoryPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I finished Rollin before these people came. I am quite distressed about my memory - after all the time and pains I have bestowed on this ancient history I find my mind ...Jane Baillie Welsh Charles RollinThe History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancien...Print: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and SophiaCharles RollinMethod of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres...Print: Book
1700-1799'As I was reading with Susan and Sophy today in Rollin's Grecian History it struck me, that when Mardonius offered Terms to the Athenians & Aristides rejected 'em; he str...Hester Thrale and her daughters Sophy and SusannaCharles RollinAncient History Print: Book
1850-1899'I would not, I could not, give up the rides and rambles that took up so much of my time, but I would try to overcome my disinclination to serious reading. There we...William Henry Hudson Charles RollinThe Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginian...Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Mr Procter's "Ch.Lamb", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways. I could not help enjoying Ld Cornwallis, though hal...Harriet Martineau Charles RossThe Correspondence of Charles, 1st Marquis of Corn...Print: Book
1800-1849'My dear Ross, Many thanks for your statistical Magazine, which contains some tables concerning juvenile delinquency that I was particularly anxious to see in a well-dig...Charles Dickens Charles RossThe Statistical Journal and Record of Useful Knowl...Unknown
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847: 'The most interesting [book] that I have read for many years is Lamartine's Histo...Mary Russell Mitford Charles Saint JohnShort Sketches of the Wild Sports and Natural Hist...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading the singular article on myself, signed ?C.S.?, in your first issue.' Arnold Bennett Charles Sarolea'Everyman' magazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles ScudamoreA Chemical and Medical Report of the Properties ofPrint: Book
1700-1799Writt from 6 to 9. Sup'd alone. Read 'The Mulberry Garden', a pretty play. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile Charles SedleyThe Mulberry Garden or The Works...In Two VolumesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with the close resemblances between an episode in Charles...Arnold Bennett Charles ShawWhen I was a ChildPrint: Book
1700-1799'Before dinner Dr. Johnson seized upon Mr. Charles Sheridan's "Account of the late Revolution in Sweden", and seemed to read it ravenously, as if he devoured it, which wa...Samuel Johnson Charles SheridanHistory of the late revolution in Sweden , APrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Charles SmithSeven Letters on National ReligionPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions. C.E. Stansfield a reading f...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[essay entitled 'Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's...Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on Kingsley as a religious leader and F.J. Edminson on a...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[paper on Kingsley as religious leader]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawlings Paper on the life of the poet by Mrs Smith So...Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield[Paper on Life of Fitzgerald and Omar's Philosophy...Manuscript: Unknown


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