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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of P...Robert Southey PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte'George Eliot [pseud] PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List of Percy Shelley's reading, 1819. Most texts are mentioned in journal entries so are not given separate entries here] 'Greek The Greek Tr...Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes Mrs Macauly [sic] - Reads the Republic of Plato'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - With S. the first Epist. of Horace - Walk - He reads the Republic of Plato'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'4th Book of Plato's "Republic" at beginning, p. 420.'John Ruskin PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'Begin "Republic" for conclusive work'John Ruskin PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'Go on with "Republic", Book 1.'John Ruskin PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'Working on 8th and 3rd Books only, examining Plato's fearful judgement on invalids.'John Ruskin PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read to end of p. 269.'John Ruskin PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read to end of p. 270.'John Ruskin PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hurting" people makes them worse. 281, 7 &c.'John Ruskin PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:] 'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not one of which have reached Deal, except some novels, wh...Elizabeth Carter Plato RepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness': 'Jan. 29th. [1889] Read the Vision of Er. He pitied Ardiaeus and said, "That is eternal hell which I do not be...Hallam Tennyson Plato Republic (Book II)Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading Plato - Republic'George Eliot [pseud] PlatoRepublic,ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, whi...Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in LeedsRichard CarlileRepublicanPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849?[James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in ...James Watson Richard CarlileRepublicanPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical


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