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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christian WolffLogic, or rational thoughts on the powers of the h...Print: Book
1700-1799'Looked over the 1st and 2d Parts of Watts' "Logic"...'Thomas Green Isaac WattsLogic, or the right use of reasonPrint: Book
1700-1799'Since dinner I have read much logic and enjoyed it, it is interesting to me, may, I think, with attention, do me good - reading Watts impresses deeply in my mind how ver...Elizabeth Gurney Isaac WattsLogic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry...Print: Book
1700-1799'I have been reading Watts on judgement this afternoon; it has led me into thought and particularly upon the evidence I have to believe in religion ... my mind has not be...Elizabeth Gurney Isaac WattsLogic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry...Print: Book
1700-1799'read Watts' Logic'Elizabeth Gurney Isaac WattsLogic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry...Print: Book
1800-1849'Had three pints of beer at the Harrow then came home, I afterwards read my opportioned [sic] quantity of "Watts Logic", smoked a pipe and am now ready to retire.' [On Fr...Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read until near dinner [goes to chapel] came home, had a glass of gin and water read my quantum of "Watts Logic" smoked a pipe and am now ready to retire'. Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tokk a little supper and afterwards read 28 pages of "Watts Logic". Now feel weary and am on the point of retiring with the hope that my evenings improvement will be a l...Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Now going to bed having completed my daily reading 12 o'clock -news today of Don Carlos quitting Spain and taking refuge in France.'Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Came home about half past 10 p.m. Read my stinted quantity of "Watts".'Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read my usual quantity, and retired quite fatigued.'Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Did not read much tonight -but if all be well I intend to bring up the arears to morrow. (Sat 21 did not read my stated quantity. Friday 20: came into the sitting room a...Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Commenced reading at 7 p.m. and continued till half past 9. Made up for the last nights neglect and am now going to bed nearly 10 p.m.'Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1900-1945'We were allowed to see two German papers—the "Kölnische Zeitung" and the "Lokal Würzburger Anzeiger." These papers arrived after lunch, and anything of interest in t...Ian Vivian Lokal Würzburger AnzeigerPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'Tuesday 12th July. I do not like ?Lolly Willowes?. [...] I do not like these fantastic things which suggest that they have something to tell which one is too stupid ...Gerald Moore Sylvia Townsend WarnerLolly WillowesPrint: Book
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with examples including Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes ('how si...Edward Morgan Forster Sylvia Townsend WarnerLolly WillowesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Perused Johnson's "London", and "Vanity of Human Wishes". His Numbers are strong in sense, and smooth in flow; but want that varied grace, and inextinguishable spirit, ...Thomas Green Samuel JohnsonLondonPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 6 December 1792: 'Juvenal is a grand nervous Satirist — your refined criticks prefer the sneering strokes of Horace — for me ...Robert Southey Samuel JohnsonLondonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Long before I heard of Freud I was interested in reading accounts of first memories and impressions. My own experience had taught me that the roots of life were there bu...Molly V HughesLondon Child of the Seventies, AUnknown
1900-1945'We belong to our time and the most we can achieve as a rule is to be a generation ahead of it; if we tear up our roots how many can exist merely on air? Yet if people wa...Molly V HughesLondon Child of the Seventies, AUnknown


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