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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history, voyages, and travels, politics, law and Philosophy...Francis Place David Hume[Essays and Treatises]Print: Book
1800-1849I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it.Thomas Carlyle David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849But too much of one thing - as it is in the adage. Therefore I reserve the account of Hume's essays till another opportunity. At any rate the Second volume is not finis...Thomas Carlyle David HumeEssays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 2 volsPrint: Book
1700-1799'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let...Frances Burney David HumeThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo...Frances Power Cobbe David Hume Print: Book
1800-1849have been in the shop steadily this day (which has been cold and blowing), reading in Hume's History of England- the Norman Conquest.Adam Mackie David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849Am in shop about steady this day doing little else but reading Humes' EnglandAdam Mackie David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I know that Historians are very subject to give us their own views, instead of Facts. Hume is very partial to Royalty, and at every opportunity is ready to sneer at Reli...Robert Sharp David HumeThe History of England from the InvasionPrint: Book
1800-1849'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Hume's "History of England", and many o...James Watson David HumeThe History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that ...Samuel Bamford David HumeDecline and fall of the Roman empirePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after...Lady Caroline Lamb David HumeunknownPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have now one great satisfaction, which is reading Hume's "History". It entertains and instructs me. It elevates my mind and excites noble feelings of every kind.'James Boswell David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the...John Stuart Mill David HumeThe History of England (presumably)Print: Book
1800-1849?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Trut...Thomas Carter David Hume[Essays]Print: Book
1700-1799'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions'James Boswell David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] David Hume[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am highly indebted to you for Hume. I like his essays better than any thing I have read these many days. He has prejudices, he does maintain errors - but he defends hi...Thomas Carlyle David HumeEssays Moral, Political and LiteraryPrint: Book
1800-1849'The best book I have read, since I wrote you, is Hume's "Essays, political and literary". It is indeed a most ingenious production - characterised by acuteness and origi...Thomas Carlyle David HumeEssays Moral, Political and LiteraryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s eight chaotic volumes are before me. To say nothing o...Thomas Carlyle David HumeThe History of England during the reigns of James ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man...Thomas Carlyle David HumeThe History of England During the Reigns of James ...Print: Book


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