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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'What I thus learned was, I think, much enforced by the perusal of that well-known little book, Watt's "Divine and Moral Songs", which I read with so much interest as to ...Thomas Carter Isaac WattsDivine and Moral SongsPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'Robert Story [...] read his first real book, Watts' "Divine Songs for Children", with "my heart burning and with secret rapture"'. Robert Story Isaac WattsDivine Songs for ChildrenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Had three pints of beer at the Harrow then came home, I afterwards read my opportioned [sic] quantity of "Watts Logic", smoked a pipe and am now ready to retire.' [On Fr...Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read until near dinner [goes to chapel] came home, had a glass of gin and water read my quantum of "Watts Logic" smoked a pipe and am now ready to retire'. Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tokk a little supper and afterwards read 28 pages of "Watts Logic". Now feel weary and am on the point of retiring with the hope that my evenings improvement will be a l...Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Now going to bed having completed my daily reading 12 o'clock -news today of Don Carlos quitting Spain and taking refuge in France.'Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Came home about half past 10 p.m. Read my stinted quantity of "Watts".'Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read my usual quantity, and retired quite fatigued.'Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Did not read much tonight -but if all be well I intend to bring up the arears to morrow. (Sat 21 did not read my stated quantity. Friday 20: came into the sitting room a...Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Commenced reading at 7 p.m. and continued till half past 9. Made up for the last nights neglect and am now going to bed nearly 10 p.m.'Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was w...Elizabeth Sewell Isaac WattsImprovement of the MindPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over the 1st and 2d Parts of Watts' "Logic"...'Thomas Green Isaac WattsLogic, or the right use of reasonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe" and Robertson's "Charles the Fifth", I read, and al...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Isaac WattsImprovement of the Mind, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitated or tried to imitate, the copiousness and luxurianc...Samuel Johnson Isaac Watts[unknown]Print: Book
'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wished that Milton's "Tractate on Education" should be...Samuel Johnson Isaac Watts[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Since dinner I have read much logic and enjoyed it, it is interesting to me, may, I think, with attention, do me good - reading Watts impresses deeply in my mind how ver...Elizabeth Gurney Isaac WattsLogic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry...Print: Book
1700-1799'I have been reading Watts on judgement this afternoon; it has led me into thought and particularly upon the evidence I have to believe in religion ... my mind has not be...Elizabeth Gurney Isaac WattsLogic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry...Print: Book
1700-1799'read Watts' Logic'Elizabeth Gurney Isaac WattsLogic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry...Print: Book
1800-1849E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'In the morning she appeared very full of love - put o...Priscilla Gurney Isaac Watts[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie...Thomas Carter Isaac Weld[narratives of travels]Print: Book


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