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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	'Read the first 3 parts of the "Pursuits of Literature", of these the first I admire the most. There are people who will not allow that the author has either wit or learn...	Joseph Hunter	Thomas James Mathias	The Pursuits of Literature [...] A Satirical Poem	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the first 6 chapters of May's "History of the Long Parliament"; containing a retrospect of affairs, down to its assembling...'	Thomas Green	Thomas May	The history of the Parliament of England	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the first Book of Locke's "Essay on the Human Understanding",--in refutation of the doctrine of innate principles...'	Thomas Green	John Locke	Essay concerning Human Understanding	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the first five chapters of Reid's "Enquiry into the Human Mind": in which he examines the senses of Smell, Taste, Hearing, and Touch...'	Thomas Green	Thomas Reid	An inquiry into the human mind	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the first four Books of Montesquieu's "Esprit des Loix"...'	Thomas Green	Montesquieu	De l?esprit des loix	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the First of Alison's "Two Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste". Taste, he defines, That faculty by which we perceive and enjoy whatever is sublime and be...	Thomas Green	Archibald Alison	Essays on the nature and principles of taste	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the first two books of "Livy's History"...'	Thomas Green	Livy	History of Rome	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the first Vol. of Hurd's "Sermons at Lincoln's-Inn"...'	Thomas Green	Richard Hurd	Sermons preached at Lincoln?s-Inn	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read the first vol. of the antiquary and work'	Mary Godwin	Walter Scott	Antiquary, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the Georgics'	Mary Shelley	Virgil	Georgics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the German's tale'	Mary Shelley	Harriet Lee	'Kruitzner or the German's tale'	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair'	Mary Shelley	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Giaour, The: a fragment of a Turkish tale	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair'	Mary Shelley	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Corsair, The: a tale	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the gist of "Ecce Homo".'	John Ruskin	J.R. Seeley	Ecce Homo	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche'	Mary Shelley	Terence	Hecyra	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the Hecyra of Terence - dine at the Hoppners - read an Italian translation of Apuleius's story of Cupid and Psyche'	Mary Shelley	Apuleius	Golden Ass, The (Metamorphoses)	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read the Hist. of Shipwrecks'	Mary Shelley	John G. Dalyell	Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the Introduction to Berkeley's "Principles of Human Knowledge", in which he really seems to be serious and in earnest...'	Thomas Green	George Berkeley	A treatise concerning the principles of human know...	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.	George Eliot [pseud]	Audin de Rians	[Introduction to Savonarola's Poems]	Print: Unknown
	1850-1899	'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.	George Eliot [pseud]	[n/a]	The Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical

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