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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] In what you say with regard to the second volume of "Letters on Education" being, in some parts, too abstruse for certain readers, you ...Hector Macneil Elizabeth HamiltonLetters on EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] Do I not well remember hiding "Kaims's Elements of Criticism", under the cover of an easy chair, whenever I heard the approach of a foo...Elizabeth Hamilton Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Dr S.] It was the perusal of Tacitus, in Murphy's translation, which first excited the idea in my mind [of writing a book of moral education based on the beha...Elizabeth Hamilton TacitusAnnalsPrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Dr S.] My reading [on classical subjects relevant to a projected book] has not been, by any means, extensive; for the last ten years the weakness in my eyes h...Elizabeth Hamilton  Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Dr S.] If you have not yet seen the Edinburgh Quarterly Review, I beg leave to recommend it your perusal, as a striking specimen of the abilities of a party o...Elizabeth Hamilton [Edinburgh] Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[letter to Dr S.] I submitted my half finished manuscript [to my friend Mr D. S-], which he read over with critical and minute attention. He flatters me with the assuran...Mr D.S- Elizabeth HamiltonMemoirs of the Life of Aggrippina, the wife of Ger...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[letter to Dr S.] I have just finished the perusal of a publication which plainly shows what may be accomplished by the persevering exertions of a righteous zeal. I allu...Elizabeth Hamilton Thomas ClarksonHistory of the Abolition of the African Slave Trad...Print: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Miss J-B-] I have just been looking over the fifth volume of poor Burns. it contains much that he would have been sorry to imagine before the public eye; but ...Elizabeth Hamilton R.H. CromekReliques of Robert Burns Print: Book
1800-1849'I feel very unworthy this morning. Though the day appeared to begin well in a few words of solemn supplication after reading. Yesterday I think I was too much off my wat...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Enabled publicly after "Reading" to cast my care upon our Henry Helper'Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday I was enabled after reading to cast my care wholly and publicly upon the great helper of the helpless, in which I found peace'Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading over an old journal book. Ah saith my soul, how has the loving kindness and tender mercy of the Almighty been manifested to me'Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth Fry[Journal]Manuscript: Codex
1800-1849'A chapter we read this morning tendered my spirit and raised it in aspirations to the God of my help. Describing by what a minister ought to prove himself a minister of ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]2 CorinthiansPrint: Book
1800-1849'The 40th and 42nd Psalms spoke comfort to me this morning, and I may say they greatly expressed the language of my spirit'Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'Having poured forth my soul in prayer, and having exhorted my household to live in the love and fear of the Lord, I have attained some mental relief upon entering a New ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Esther)Print: Book
1800-1849'I told no one my state until about the time to get up. I then dressed. I felt bound to have my husband, children, my dear sister Elizabeth Gurney, Susan Pitchford as suc...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Upon reading the 2nd Chap. in Deuteronomy I felt this verse so much the acknowledgement of my heart, though all the works of my hands, may not yet have appeared to be fu...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Deuteronomy)Print: Book
1800-1849'These words in Eccles. struck me much. Ch. II v 21 & 22: "Marvel not at the works of sinners, but trust in the Lord and abide in thy labour, for it is one easy thing in ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Ecclesiastes)Print: Book
1800-1849'I paid a very interesting visit to two female convict ships with my dear sister E. Fry and cousin Sarah last 6th day, and met William Wilberforce and Sophie Vansittart a...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'The first day before leaving home I must also describe if I can. It was one of the most interesting nature. In the first place I had [underline] all [end underline] the ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book


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