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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry Oct 14 1791 'This temporary triumph of irreligion and false philosophy will tear the mark off the monster ?What pains have been taken to promulgate ...Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] David HumeEssay concerning human understandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Political Justice & 8 Cantos of his poem.'Mary Shelley David HumeEssays and Treatises on Several subjectsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.'Mary Shelley David HumeEssays and Treatises on Several SubjectsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I employed the day in reading Hume's "History", which enlarged my views, filled me with great ideas, and rendered me happy'James Boswell David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 1st part of Humes Essays'Mary Shelley David HumeEssays and Treatises on Several SubjectsPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Hume'Percy Bysshe Shelley David HumeEssays and treatises on several subjectsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Humes dissertation on the passions'Mary Shelley David HumeFour DissertationsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley David HumeHistory of England from the Invasion of Julius Cae...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon - and reads Hume's England in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley David HumeHistory of England from the Invasion of Julius Cae...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's England aloud in the evening after our walk.'Percy Bysshe Shelley David HumeHistory of England from the Invasion of Julius Cae...Print: Book
1800-1849'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's England'Percy Bysshe Shelley David HumeHistory of England from the Invasion of Julius Cae...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley David HumeHistoiry of England from the Invasion of Julius Ca...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett David HumeEssaysPrint: Book
1700-1799'The conversation now turned upon Mr. David Hume's style. Johnson. "Why, Sir, his style is not English; the structure of his sentences is French. Now the French structure...Samuel Johnson David Hume[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; s...Samuel Johnson David HumeEnquiry concerning Human Understanding Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Truth will not afford sufficient food to their vanity; s...James Boswell David HumeEnquiry concerning Human Understanding Print: Book
1700-1799'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and you think yourselves very great men. Hume would never...Samuel Johnson David HumeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesDavid Hume Print: Book
1700-1799' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] Without doubt you have read what is called "The Life of David Hume", written by himself, with the letter from Dr. Adam Smith subjoined ...James Boswell David HumeMy Own LifePrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817): 'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reasoning is generally indistinct, and in some places unin...George Grote David HumeEssaysPrint: Book


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