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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'We had a very pleasant day on monday at Ashe [...] There was a whist & a casino table, & six outsiders. - Rice & Lucy made love, Mat: Robinson fell asleep, James and Mr...Augusta Bramston Dr Edward Jennerpamphlet on the cow poxPrint: Pamphlet
1600-1699'how[ever], I fell to read a little in Hakewill's "apology", and did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world doth not grow old at all, but is...Samuel Pepys Dr George HakewillAn apologie or declaration of the power and provid...Print: Book
1600-1699'I sat down and read over the Bishop of Chichesters sermon upon the anniversary of the King's death - much cried up but methinks a mean sermon.'Samuel Pepys Dr Henry KingA sermon preached the 30th of January...1664Print: Book
1700-1799"Doctor Gregory's Book was published at Edin [r] just two Days before I left that Place...I read it, tho butin the hurried Way which the Eve of Journey allowed of...I als...Henry Mackenzie Dr John GregoryA Father's Legacy to his DaughtersPrint: Book
1850-1899'. . . have you got Roget?s Thesaurus of English words and phrases? It is the most wonderful machine for getting at words that you know but can?t think of at the moment...Arnold Bennett Dr Peter Mark RogetThesaurusPrint: Book
1900-1945 'I send by parcel post two other jobs: One is "Roget?s Thesaurus". This is a book that I use every day, fairly roughly. Please bind it how you like, bearing this rou...Arnold Bennett Dr Peter Mark RogetThesaurusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of trying to reduce (as I tried to do a few days ago!) C...Donald William Alers Hankey Dr Robert William DaleThe Doctrine of AtonementPrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you with this all Dr. Channing's works, and the little series of four small volumes, in whcih Miss Sedgwick's "Home" is to be found, and I send them very gladly, ...George Ticknor Dr. ChanningSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799'By some one of these publications, but most probably from the last-mentioned [i.e. Withering], Mr.Aikin was inspired with a taste for this delightful study...'John Aikin Dr. WitheringBotanical description of British PlantsPrint: 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 Dr. Edward YoungThe Last DayPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751: 'I am deep in the Memoires of the Duc de Sully, and exceedingly entertained by them. I make him my companion with p...Catherine Talbot Duc de SullyMemoirsPrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to Lady Augusta Bruce, 12 May 1863, after being sent an 'Album' belonging to Queen Victoria, with the request that he write something in it before returni...Alfred Tennyson Duchess of KentinscriptionManuscript: Unknown, In Album belonging to Queen Victoria
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Sat till dinner-time in Lady Douglas's dressing-room, reading old letters to h...Mary Berry Duchess of QueensburyLetters to Lady GreenwichManuscript: Letter
1600-1699'Thence home; and there, in favour to my eyes, stayed at home reading the ridiculous history of my Lord Newcastle, wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceit...Samuel Pepys Duchess of NewcastleThe life of the thrice noble, high and puissant pr...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to read a little more in last night's book with much sport, it being a foolish book.'Samuel Pepys Duchess of NewcastleThe life of the thrice noble, high and puissant pr...Print: Book
1800-1849'27th June - The last book worth mentioning, which I perused was Stewart's preliminary dissertation - for the second time. The longer I study the works of this philosoph...Thomas Carlyle Dugald StewartPhilosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary'...Thomas Carter Dugald StewartElements of the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on philosophical studies in early adulthood: 'I surrendered myself [...] to the charm of Dugald Stewart's writings'.Harriet Martineau Dugald StewartunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Dugald StewartDissertation FirstPrint: Book
1800-1849'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in their censures of "the metaphysical heresies" of th...Thomas Carlyle Dugald StewartElements of the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book


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