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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a very shrewd piece.'Samuel Pepys Thomas HobbesOf libertie and necessitiePrint: Book
1800-1849'read the Answer to Malthus - finish it'Mary Shelley William GodwinOf Population... an answer to Mr Malthus's Essay o...Print: Book
1800-1849'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer'Mary Shelley William GodwinOf Poulation... an answer to Mr Malthus's Essay on...Print: Book
1800-1849'Dallaway on sculpture is very slovenly from the little pains he takes to be clear. It is very difficult to know what antecedent word he refers to. His book suggests two ...Benjamin Newton James DallawayOf Statuary and Sculpture among the AntientsPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes S. T. Coleridge's presentation of a copy of Richard Field, Of the Church, annotated by himself, to his son Derwent in 1819.Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard FieldOf the ChurchPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard FieldOf the ChurchPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard FieldOf the ChurchPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Richard FieldOf the ChurchPrint: Book
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] seems to have translated ... [John Clanvowe, Of the Cuckowe and the Nightingale] on 7 and 8 Dec. 1801, and made a fair copy on 9 Dec.'William Wordsworth John ClanvoweOf the Cuckowe and the NightingaleUnknown
1600-1699'At night fell to read in Hookers "Ecclesiastical policy" which Mr Moore did give me last Wednesday, very handsomely bound; and which I shall read with great pains and lo...Samuel Pepys Richard HookerOf the lawes of ecclesiastical politiePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the 1st Book of Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity"...'Thomas Green Edward HookerOf the laws of ecclesiastical politiePrint: Book
1700-1799'I went through that extraordinary work of Lord Monboddo on the "Origin of Language". I was entertained and instructed from the singularity of the system, the many errone...Anna Larpent Lord MonboddoOf the origin and progress of languagePrint: Book
1700-1799'He [Johnson] attacked Lord Monboddo's strange speculation on the primitive state of human nature; observing, "Sir, it is all conjecture about a thing useless, even were ...Samuel Johnson James Burnett, Lord MonboddoOf the Origin and Progress of LanguagePrint: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes on memory from Francis Bacon's Of the proficience and advancement of learning (1605). ...Edward Pordage Francis BaconOf the proficience and advancement of learningPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Friedrich Carl Von SavignyOf the Vocation of our Age for Legislation and Jur...Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 20. 8. 40
A. B. Dilks in the chair.
[...]
8. After coffee we were faced with the Herculean task of answering a G...		Bruce Dilks Howard Smith and Bruce Dilks Official answers to a general knowledge quiz paperManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Reading "Ordeal of War"—Oliver most interesting & instructive, also Report of committee on Belgian atrocities[.] Dined with Richmond at the Club.'Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar [n/a] [n/a]Official Book of the German Atrocities Told by Vic...Print: Book
1800-1849'The Wish' 'Oh! Had we some bright little isle of our own,... S.W. 1821''S.W.' Thomas MooreOh had we some bright little isleUnknown
1800-1849'Oh thou who driest the mourner's tear/...' 'Moore' [epigraph from Psalms not transcribed]Carey/Maingay groupThomas MooreOh Thou Who Dry'st the Mourner's TearPrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Oh! Snatched away in Beauty's bloom...'Bowly groupGeorge Gordon, Lord ByronOh! Snatched Away In Beauty's BloomUnknown


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