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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'After reading at the Athenaeum a section of Ruskin's autobiography, "Praeterita", published in instalments between 1885 and 1889, Grant Duff reflected [in diary for 14 A...Grant Duff John RuskinPraeteritaPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945"Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquaintance with him."Leslie Stephen John RuskinPraeteritaPrint: Book
1900-1945A reminiscence of reading John Ruskin's autobiography, Praeterita (pub 1881-6) at work. Published in The Wheatsheaf: 'Long ago, with the engine groaning below the wood...Ethel Carnie John RuskinPraeteritaPrint: Book
1900-1945Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [...] I can't now explain save by the very fact of the...Henry James William JamesPragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinki...Print: Book
1800-1849Monday, 28 January 1828: 'I have read Cooper's Prairie, better I think than his Red Rover in which you never got foot on shore and to understand entirely the incidents...Walter Scott James Fenimore CooperPrairiePrint: Book
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1600-1699		'In [Gabriel Harvey's copy of] G. Breule's "Praxis Medicinae Theorica" (1585) on the front flyleaf is a manuscript index of various medical problems, together with page r...Gabriel Harvey G. BreulePraxis Medicinae TheoricaPrint: Book
1900-1945'A study was made on Armistice Day reactions, comparable to those made in previous years. Even at the Cenotaph there was only a low degree of interest, and in Westminster...[a priest] anon unknownprayerPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of trying to reduce (as I tried to do a few days ago!) C...Donald William Alers Hankey Charles GorePrayer and the Lord's PrayerPrint: Book
1800-1849'A Prayer by Burn' 'O thou great Being! What thou art, /...' [transcribes poem]B.A.T. Herbert Robert BurnsPrayer Under the Pressure of Violent AnguishUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes church service attended in London in letter to Mary Hutchinson, 5 May 1820: 'Tom and I went with [Mr Johnson] last Sunday but one to the op...William Johnson prayersPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes daily routine during stay at her brother Christopher's London residence in letter to Mary Hutchinson, 5 May 1820: ' ... he sits with me till ...Christopher Wordsworth prayersUnknown
1800-1849'Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moore's sermons.'John Cole Lancelot AndrewesPrayersPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'The Presbyterian Minister came and read prayers to the prisoners.'anon prayersPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Mr Chase called and read prayers to the prisoners.'Mr Chase prayersPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers and addressed the Protestants'anon prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners, and afterwards preached a sermon.'anon prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Prayers were read to the Catholic prisoners'anon prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers and delivered an Address to the Protestant prisoners.'anon prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mr Stoddart read prayers and delivered an address to the Protestant prisoners'Mr Stoddart prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners.'anon prayersPrint: Book


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