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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.'John Cole Hugh BlairA sermon on the death of ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in this life' [...] Read portions of Bryant 'On the plague...John Cole Hugh BlairSermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Blair's sermon on the Divine Presence, with other appropriate proceedings. Evening had social prayers and read aloud a sermon.'John Cole Hugh BlairSermonPrint: Book
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 Hugh BlairSermonsPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields with a book - "Charles Grandisson" I am but at the seco...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Hugh BlairLectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: ...Thomas Carlyle Hugh BlairLectures on RhetoricPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished the perusal of Blair's "Lectures on Rhetoric". The praise of ingenuity, of a judgment in general correct, and a taste for the most part timidly correct, I can ...Thomas Green Hugh BlairLectures on rhetoric and belles lettresPrint: Book
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1843: 'I have been reading a good deal of Dr Blair's Dissertation upon Ossian. The Miss Smiths can bear witness, t...Hugh Stuart Boyd Hugh BlairA Critical Dissertation on the Poems of OssianPrint: Book
1800-1849'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's Sermons, Blairs Sermons, 5vols. Scott's Christian Li...James Lackington Hugh BlairSermons (5 vols)Print: Book
1700-1799' [publisher Mr Strahan] received from Johnson on Christmas-eve, a note in which was the following paragraph: "I have read over Dr. Blair's first sermon with more tha...Samuel Johnson Hugh Blair[a sermon]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Dr. Blair is printing some sermons. If they are all like the first, which I have read, they are [italics] sermones aurei, ac auro magis...Samuel Johnson Hugh Blair[A Sermon]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Please to return Dr. Blair thanks for his sermons. The Scotch write English wonderfully well.'Samuel Johnson Hugh BlairSermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson] praised Blair's sermons: "Yet", said he, (willing to let us see he was aware that fashionable fame, however deserved, is not always the most lasting,) "perhap...Samuel Johnson Hugh BlairSermonsPrint: Book
'He [Johnson] said, "I read yesterday Dr. Blair's sermon on Devotion, from the text 'Cornelius, a devout man.' His doctrine is the best limited, the best expressed: there...Samuel Johnson Hugh Blair[Sermon on Devotion]Print: Unknown
'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows] "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ. DEAR SIR, In the year 1763, being at London, I was car...James Boswell Hugh Blair[letter concerning Pope and Bolingbroke]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps more sense than he can hold; he takes more corn than he...Samuel Johnson Hugh BlairSermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849From Ellen Nussey's reminiscences of her schoolfriends Charlotte Bronte and Mary Taylor:

'A time came that both Charlotte and Mary were so proficient in scho...		Charlotte Brontë Hugh BlairLectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresPrint: Book
1600-1699'when I had praied, I took a litle phesick and then I reed of Mr Browghtons book'Margaret Hoby Hugh BroughtonMaster Broughtons letters, especially his lastv pa...Print: Book
1600-1699'and then I walked awhill, and after reed of Mr Broughtons booke'Margaret Hoby Hugh BroughtonMaster Broughtons letters, especially his lastv pa...Print: Book
1850-1899'Mr Clifford's book reached me only yesterday--the 15th [...] The book is interesting, has insight and of course unrival[l]ed knowledge of the subject. But it is not lite...Joseph Conrad Hugh CliffordStudies in Brown HumanityPrint: Book


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