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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are...George Crabbe Joseph MilnerHistory of the Church of ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and Contingency, of Predestination & Free-will, which are...George Crabbe John NewtonCardiphonia, or Utterance of the HeartPrint: Book
1800-1849'That is a curious kind of Hallucination which Miss B. discovers in her Addresses to imaginary Beings: it comes very near to a case I read, long since, in the Trials of W...George Crabbe [unknown][book on witchcraft trials]Print: Book
1800-1849'You and I both love reading, and it is well for me that I do; but at your time reading is but one employment, whereas with me it is almost all. And yet I often ask mysel...George Crabbe  Print: Book
1800-1849'Have you met with a Work called Scripture Difficulties? - C. Benson in the Hulsean Lectures?'George Crabbe Christopher BensonHulsean Lectures for 1822: On Scripture Difficulti...Print: Book
1800-1849'I am reading & have nearly read, a Work upon Enthusiasm, [the] 3d Edition, the author unknown to me, but a thinking Man of good Sense & a stedd[y] Believer in what he do...George Crabbe [unknown][unknown work on religious enthusiasm]Print: Book
1800-1849'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. Blackwoods last Number, Numbers I should say for ther...George Crabbe [n/a][newspapers at time of Reform debate]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost to me, and I must read them myself before I can appl...George Crabbe George CrabbeLady BarbaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost to me, and I must read them myself before I can appl...George Crabbe George CrabbeEllenPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have not done much with the Sermons you sent me nor after the Bristol Huricanes Would you expect it, still I have not been altogether idle, for vamping old Sermons is ...George Crabbe George Crabbe[sermons]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Well! Dearest you have criticised my letter - it is now my turn to criticise yours. Be patient, then, and good-tempered, I beg; for you shall find me a severer critic ...Jane Baillie Welsh Thomas CarlyleLetter dated 20th January 1825Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'My own Jane!- You are a noble girl; and your true and generous heart shall not lie oppressed anotehr instant under any weight that I can tkae from it... This letter is, ...Thomas Carlyle Jane Baillie WelshLetter dated 29th JanuaryManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'PS Since I finished this, I have got Alick's letter, and the Courier all in order! Thank Alick and my dear Father for the pleasure and contentment they have given me: h...Thomas Carlyle The CourierPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'There is a Spaniard here (one of the refugees) who from Catholic has become Protestant, a very honest shrewd little fellow, between whom and Irving I have had occasion f...Thomas Carlyle Spanish GrammarPrint: Book
1800-1849'My dear Alick, No piece of news that I have heard for a long time has given me more satisfaction than the intelligence contained in your letter of yesterday. For severa...Thomas Carlyle Alexander CarlyleLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Yesterday Badams wrote me (from admist the 'wild beasts of Ephesus,' as he calls the new Mining Companies, with whom he is in constant treaty about some important smelti...Thomas Carlyle BadamsLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'He has written to me twice since his departure; he insists that I shall take a little pony of his with all its furniture; ride home on it thro' the Peak country in Derby...Thomas Carlyle BadamsLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and ...Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich RichterLeben FibelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of Richter I yet know little; I have looked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and ...Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich RichterHerbst-blumine oder gesammelte Wekchen aus Zeitsch...Print: Book
1800-1849'Of Richter I yet know little; I havelooked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and T...Thomas Carlyle Jean Paul Friedrich RichterDie FlegeljahrePrint: Book


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