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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I have myself read his [Kant's] works, and I think nothing can be more lucid than his style, or more easy to be understood'.Charlotte Bury Immanuel Kant Print: Book
1800-1849'You will never in the world guess what sort of a pastime I have had resourse to in this windbound portion of my voyage. Nothing less than the reading of Kant's Transcen...Thomas Carlyle Immanuel KantThe Critique of Pure ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 11 March 1819: 'Rose at 7. Breakfasted, and read Kant for a couple of hours [...] finished the ...George Grote Immanuel Kant Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 11 March 1819: 'Rose at 7. Breakfasted, and read Kant for a couple of hours [...] finished the ...George Grote Immanuel Kant Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 13 March 1819: 'Rose at 1/2 past 7, after a sleepless night. Read some of Hume's Essay on the A...George Grote Immanuel Kant Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Monday 22 March 1819: 'Rose at 6 [...] Read some of Kant for 1 hour ...] between 4 and 5 read some more ...George Grote Immanuel Kant Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Wednesday 24 March 1819: 'Rose soon after 6. Read Kant, and breakfasted, until 9.'George Grote Immanuel Kant Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 25 March 1819: 'Between 4 and 5 I read some of Kant's Prolegomena [...] went up to Palsgrave Pl...George Grote Immanuel KantProlegomenaPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Friday 26 March 1819: 'Rose at 6. Read and meditated Kant for some time [...] attempted to read some Kan...George Grote Immanuel Kant Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Friday 26 March 1819: 'Rose at 6. Read and meditated Kant for some time [...] attempted to read some Kan...George Grote Immanuel Kant Print: Book
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840: 'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "Kritik der reinen Vernunft," a book which always le...George Grote Immanuel KantKritik der reinen VernunftPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include reflections by Indu Rakshit on 'the representation of the feminine' in contemporary West...Edward Morgan Forster Indu Rakshit Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Began Court Life by HRH The Infanta Eulalia of Spain.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook Infanta Eulalia of Spain Court Life from WithinPrint: Book
1600-1699'In the year 1655. was published by Mr Web a Booke intituled Stonehenge-restored (but writt by Mr Inigo Jones) which I read with great delight: there is a great deale o...John Aubrey Inigo JonesStonehenge RestoredPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Feb. 26th. [...] Read Prose Campestri da Pindemonte.' [reading from this text also recorded in journal entry for 5 March 1821, with 'Finish Poesie Campestre ...Claire Clairmont Ippolito PindemonteLe Prose e poesie campaestri d'Ippolito PindemontePrint: Book
1900-1945'Got the Face without a Frown — Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Iris Leveson Gower. This is the one with the magnificent hats. The author has made a splendid story...Vere Hodgson Iris Leveson GowerThe Face without a Frown: Georgiana, Duchess of De...Print: Book
1900-1945'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to ...Ford Madox Ford Isa GlennThe Little Candle's BeamPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading a sweet work lately, and earnestly recommend it to you my dear, pray let me have your opinion when you have read it. "Looking into Jesus" is the titl...Elizabeth Marshall Isaac AmbroseLooking into JesusPrint: Book
1800-1849Finding an old copy of Barrow's Euclid in my father's bookcase, I resolved to come at some knowledge of mathematics and by my usual persevering application for the Divine...Anne Lutton Isaac BarrowEuclid's Elements. The Whole Fifteen Books CompendPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of Portugal and Sweden. Bossuet's Oraisons Funebres, P...Sydney Smith Isaac Barrow[Select Sermons]Print: Book


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