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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844: 'I suppose by an opinion upon Taylor you mean nothing elaborate -- & indeed I am not ...Elizabeth Barrett Henry TaylorPhilip van ArteveldePrint: Book
1800-1849‘I have read [Henry] Taylor’s Philip Van Artevelde. It is admirable.’Hartley Coleridge Henry TaylorPhilip van ArteveldePrint: Book
1800-1849Before breakfast from 7 3/4 to 9 1/4, from 10 3/4 to 2 1/2 (including an interruption of 20 minutes)read from V.1304 to 1527, end of Philoctetes of Sophlocles, & afterwar...Anne Lister SophoclesPhiloctetes
1800-1849'S. reads the Philoctetes of Sophocles - Read 2nd and 3rd act of Phormio & Mile et une nuits'Percy Bysshe Shelley SophoclesPhiloctetesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Philoctetes'Mary Shelley SophoclesPhiloctetesPrint: Book
1800-1849'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered...Thomas Carlyle Isaac NewtonPhilosophi? Naturalis Principia MathematicaPrint: Book
1600-1699"[Isaac] Newton had gained international renown following the publication of his Principia in 1679 ... [attaining] something of the status of a demi-god. 'Does he eat an...anon Isaac NewtonPhilosophiae Naturalis Principia MathematicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history [of] mathematics", Woods "optics", Cunn's "Euclid" a...Thomas Carlyle Isaac NewtonPhilosophiae Naturalis Principia MathematicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read, after a long intermission (April 27, 1797) the 2d volume of Gregory's "Essays"...'Thomas Green James GregoryPhilosophical and literary essaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It were long to tell you fully my opinion of the work, w...Thomas Carlyle Abbe RaynalPhilosophical and Political History of the Settlem...Print: Book
1700-1799'Doctor Burney said prettily of James Harris's Book that it was the pourquoi de Pourquoi'.Charles Burney James HarrisPhilosophical ArrangementsPrint: Book
1800-1849'My uncle was so particular about his books that he used to declare that when a child's finger had touched one it was spoilt. Acting upon this idea, he gave up certain bo...brothers of Elizabeth missing Sewell, including Henry, William and JamesJoseph GlanvillPhilosophical Considerations touching Witches and ...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Voltaire Philosophical DictionaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'My dear Norton, since I wrote to you last, I have read Mr Chauncey Wright?s book or nearly all & - to say the truth ? found it a tolerably thorough morsel. It is like wa...Leslie Stephen Chauncey WrightPhilosophical DiscussionsPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that he has taught us any thing; but he has told us old thin...Samuel Johnson Edmund BurkePhilosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas...Print: Book
1800-1849'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It occurred to me, much about the same time, that it w...Thomas Carlyle Dugald StewartPhilosophical EssaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am glad I read the little book ["The Problems of Philosophy"] before coming to your essays ["Philosophical Essays"]. If in reading the first I felt moving step by step...Joseph Conrad Bertrand RussellPhilosophical EssaysPrint: Book
1850-1899I have been reading lately "Maunders Geography" and working a little at "Thompson's Natural Philosophy["]Albert Battiscombe Benjamin ThompsonPhilosophical Papers: being a collection of memoirPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry MorePhilosophical Poems, etcPrint: Book
1700-1799'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end italics] Betters, his Ethic Epistles are little more ...Laetitia Pilkington Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of ShaftesburyPhilosophical Rhapsody, APrint: Unknown


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