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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Read 1st Canto of Ariosto & 1st act of Phormio'Mary Shelley TerencePhormioPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the Philoctetes of Sophocles - Read 2nd and 3rd act of Phormio & Mille et une nuits'Mary Shelley TerencePhormioPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thighs and huge, almost nude, bosoms, with the absolute m...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Photo BitsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have been engaged by Spurzheims new Edition of his Phrenology: he does not write English Accurately & even where I understand, I cannot always agree & that in Assertio...George Crabbe Johann C. SpurzheimPhrenologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesPhysical Basis of Mind, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a voyage round the world'.Benjamin Newton William DerhamPhysico Theology: or a Demonstration of the beingPrint: Book
1700-1799'At home all day. Not at church all day. Read part of Boyle's lectures and Smart's poem on eternity and immensity.'Thomas Turner William DerhamPhysico-TheologyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read Derham's "Sermons at Boyle's Lectures", wherein I find a man evacuates as much in one day by insensible perspiration as in 14 by stool.'Thomas Turner William DerhamPhysico-TheologyPrint: Book
1700-1799'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slender a wire may be drawn from gold that from once oun...Thomas Turner William DerhamPhysico-TheologyPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the even read part of Derham's "Physico-Theology".'Thomas Turner William DerhamPhysico-TheologyPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was reading Derham's Astro, not his Astro, his Physico Theology; and can hardly help laughing when I see these simple Philosophers praising God Almighty for making the...Hester Lynch Thrale William DerhamPhysico-Theology, or, A Demonstration of the Being...Print: Book
1800-1849'Proceeded with Denham's "Physico-Theology". Read Hurd's sermon on "Every soul shall be salted with fire", an odd mode of preaching, he seems to give two guesses at the m...Benjamin Newton William DerhamPhysio Theology or a Demonstartion of the beingPrint: Book
1700-1799Included in Reading Notes of Edward Pordage (c.1710): Notes on Raymond Lull's Art of Memory, copied from the second edition of Richard Saunders's Physiognomie, and C...Edward Pordage Richard SaundersPhysiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, The S...Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Considerable marginalia in pencil in English, especially on the following pages: 30, 186, 216, 220-224.Vernon Lee Grant AllenPhysiological AestheticsPrint: Book
1850-1899Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux Entr’actes. Ribot Maladies de la Volonté. In Flaubert’s Co...Vernon Lee Paul BourgetPhysiologie de l'Amour ModernePrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Textual marginalia in pencil in French in the second half of the volume (Arreat's translation of Hirth) only.Vernon Lee Georges HirthPhysiologie de l'artPrint: Book
1800-1849'Kant's Geografica Fisica'Mary Shelley Immanuel KantPhysische GeographiePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the 1st Vol of Geografica Fisica'Mary Shelley Immanuel KantPhysische GeographiePrint: Book
1800-1849'read - Jacopo Ortis - 2nd Vol of Geographica Fisica - &c &c'Mary Shelley Immanuel KantPhysische GeographiePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 11 November 1836: 'Read Picciola. It is to me the prettiest thing I know, though it pretes to the ...Harriet Countess Granville PicciolaPrint: Unknown


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