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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Letter from Barbauld to her neice, Lucy Aikin, dated 27/7/1805. "What is your opinion of [begin underline] causation [end underline]? Do you agree with Dugald Stewart, H...Anna Letitia Barbauld William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849[The text is an open letter from Pearson to Paley, praising the latter's book, and suggesting its use as an academic textbook. The letter is dated 11/11/1802]Edward Pearson William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'One unfortunate who had confounded together the opening paragraphs of the Evidences and the Natural Theology... [wrote as his exam answer] only this commencement of a se...William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I cannot but urge on all those who are commencing their academic course, the natural study of his delightful work on natural Theology' [p.88] [And more references & comm...Adam Sedgwick William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'The natural theology of Dr. Paley is so generally recommended and read in this University, that I need not here insist either on the scope or the utility of the argument...John Kidd William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The acute and learned Paley sums up in the following beautiful and energetic language the results of the minute and elegant investigations persued in his invaluable volu...William Buckland William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The logic of this book [Paley's Evidences] and as I may add of his Natural Theology gave me as much delight as did Euclid.' [Darwin's Autobiography]Charles Darwin William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The evidences of the infinite wisdom, power, and goodness of the great Creator, given by Paley in his Natural Theology, have attracted my attention to objects that might...Elizabeth Hamilton William PaleyNatural TheologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'At the end of 1922, some unknown benefactor had given him a book, called Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know. Alan told his mother later this book had opened ...Alan Mathison Turing Edwin Tenney BrewsterNatural Wonders Every Child Should KnowPrint: Book
1700-1799Read the 2d volume of Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature & Art'. It is a pretty little thing, not in the same way as the 'Italian'.Joseph Hunter Elizabeth InchbaldNature and ArtPrint: Book
1700-1799I finished Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature and Art', the second volume is not so pleasing as the first, but yet it has a very pleasing conclusion, showing the destruction of vice ...Joseph Hunter Elizabeth InchbaldNature and ArtPrint: Book
1800-1849[Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Nature & Art There is a word in the vocabulary more bitter, more direful in its import than all the rest?if poverty if bodil...Lady Caroline Lamb Elizabeth InchbaldNature and ArtUnknown
1700-1799'[William] Godwin, no mean judge of a novel's excellence, could not help lamenting the fewness of [Elizabeth Inchbald's] productions. On reading the MS. of "Nature and ...William Godwin Elizabeth InchbaldNature and ArtManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899: 'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I much enjoy. I see from "Nature Notes" that yesterday ...Edward Morgan Forster Nature NotesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances of the evils of collaboration.'Margaret Oliphant Rudyard KiplingNaulakhaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mon. Very few letters. None for me. All well. Read Naval Occasions by Bartimeus. V Good.'William Thomas Bartimeus (pseud.)Naval Occasions and Some Traits of the Sailor-ManPrint: Book
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries furnished me with whatever data I required about parti...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]Navy ListPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to my office, alone till dark, reading some part of my old "Navy precedents", and so home to supper.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Navy precedentsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Nemesius of Emesa Nemesii Philosophi Clarissimi de Natura Hominis Li...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Nerli'.George Eliot unknownNerliPrint: Book


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