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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'I made acquaintance yesterday with the famous poet Rousseau, who lives here [Vienna] under the peculiar protection of Prince Eugene, by whose liberality he subsists. He ...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu Jean-Baptiste RousseauodesUnknown
1800-1849'Sismondi - B.[occaccio] - S. reads A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]'Mary Shelley Jean-Charles-L?onard Simonde de SismondiHistoire des r?publiques italiennes du moyen ?gePrint: Book
1700-1799'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgeworth - [italics] Edgeworth on Practical Education [end ...Sydney Smith Jean-Fran?ois de Galaup de la PerouseVoyage de la Perouse autour du mondePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Bartelemi's Anacharsis. which forms a sort of Appendix or rather comentary to the Grecian History I was so much taken up with last summer. Without such a pr...Sarah Harriet Burney Jean-Jacques BarthelemyVoyage du jeune Anacharsis en GrecePrint: Book
1700-1799I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never went from home in the evening I always learned and ...Francis Place Jean-Jacques Rousseau Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 27 June 1816: 'I have traversed all Rousseau's ground -- with the Heloise before me -- & am struck to a degree with the force and accuracy of hs des...George Gordon Lord Byron Jean-Jacques RousseauJulie, ou La Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety years old -- a Swiss -- had it read to him & is ple...George Gordon Lord Byron Jean-Jacques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here] 'Pastor Fido ...Percy Bysshe Shelley Jean-Jacques RousseauLes Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of literature have scarcely been wider. Rousseau's "Contr...Thomas Carlyle Jean-Jacques RousseauDu Contrat SocialPrint: Book
1900-1945H. J. Jackson discusses second annotator of 1791 copy of Rousseau, A Treatise on the Social Compact; or, The Principles of Politic Law; ownership inscription in same hand...H. B. L. Webb Jean-Jacques RousseauA Treatise on the Social Compact; or, The Principl...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have done, as usual, almost nothing since we parted- Some one asked me with a smile, of which I knew not the meaning, if I would read that book, putting into my hands ...Thomas Carlyle Jean-Jacques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1700-1799'There is a very extraordinary passage in Rousseau's Thoughts on Fanaticism. It is printed in his Thoughts, published by Debrett, Vol.i. page 11. Bayle (says he) has a...James Lackington Jean-Jacques RousseauThoughts of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Citizen of Gene...Print: Book
1800-1849From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin during 1814: 'Friday September 9th. [.....Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849From Claire Clairmont's account of voyage back from Switzerland to England with P. B. Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin during 1814: 'Saturday Sept. 10th. [......Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Sept. 15th. Read Emile -- Write i[n] my Common Place Book [...] Shelley reads us the Ancient Mariner [...] Read in the Excursion -- the Story of Margaret ver...Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 16th. Rise at nine -- Breakfast -- Read Rasselas -- & De l'origine de l'inegalite [d]es Hommes'.Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscours sur l'origine de l'inegalite parmi les ho...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Sept. 18. Rise late. Read Emile.'Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Sept. 19th. Rise late [...] Read the Curse of Kehama & Emile [...] Read the [S]orcerer & Political Justice. Admire the Sorcerer very much'.Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tuesday Sept. 20th. Rise late [...] Read Emile [...] Dine at Seven -- Shelley reads aloud Thalaba till Bed time.'Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauEmile: Ou de l'educationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Jany. 30th. Read Rousseau sur Les Arts & Les Sciences -- a piece of most extraordinary Prejudice and envious wailing -- It had better have been entitled a Disqui...Claire Clairmont Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscours qui a remporte le prix a l'Academie de Di...Print: Unknown


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