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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Thou kindly asks whether I am pursuing my favourite reading. To this I must return a decided no — several books from our Book Society having come upon us suddenl...Eliza Ellis [Anon] [Anon][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Though Anna studied pious works almost constantly, she almost never commented in her diary on her religious reading ... Anna's daily examination of the scriptures or of ...Anna Larpent [sermons]Print: Book
1700-1799'Though he had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in his "Discourses to the Royal Academy". He observed on...Samuel Johnson Joshua ReynoldsSeven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy Print: Book
1700-1799'Though he had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in his "Discourses to the Royal Academy". He observed on...Samuel Johnson Joshua ReynoldsSeven Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy Print: Book
1900-1945'Though I am the least superstitious of mortals and rhough I have read Freud and Dunne and treat dreams with the scientific detachment they advocate, for the life of me I... DunneunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Though I am the least superstitious of mortals and rhough I have read Freud and Dunne and treat dreams with the scientific detachment they advocate, for the life of me I...Sigmund Freud Print: Book
1700-1799'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me with, yet I have not had time to read any farther th...Samuel Richardson Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me with, yet I have not had time to read any farther th...Samuel Richardson Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Though it is probably the mightiest mind ever engaged in our politics, & tho there seems to have been great elevation & principle in is views, I am struck with the very ...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Edmund BurkeunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Though Maga would have the better [sic] of something of mine it is nevertheless an excellent number. "The Age" is inimitable so is "The Currency"and indeed the whole is ...James Hogg John Wilson'The Age - A Poem - in Eight Books' [Blackwood's E...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen Richard ...Robert Smillie anonDick TurpinPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard ...Robert Smillie anonThree Fingered JackPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard ...Robert Smillie William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard ...Robert Smillie Robert Burns[poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard ...Robert Smillie Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led to better things": by fourteen he had seen RIchard ...Robert Smillie Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Though one former ploughboy extolled Shakespeare for possessing a deep sense of the pure morality of the Gospel" and quoted from him on most of the 440 pages of his auto...Samuel Westcott Tilke William Shakespeare Print: Book
1700-1799'Though [William Gifford] had few means of improvement, he made the most of what he had. A treatise on algebra had been given him by a young woman, who had found it in a ...William Gifford treatise on algebraPrint: Book
1700-1799'Though [William Gifford] had few means of improvement, he made the most of what he had. A treatise on algebra had been given him by a young woman, who had found it in a ...William Gifford Fenning'Introduction' [on algebra]Print: Book
1700-1799'Thought the following remarks in Miss Williams was exceeding applicable to the manufacturers of Sheffield: "There is a spirit in that class, in all countries more favour...Joseph Hunter Helen Maria WilliamsA Tour in SwitzerlandPrint: Book


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