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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'S reads the Symposium and translates a part of it - he finishes Anacharsis & reads Hume's England aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoSymposiumPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish the first book of Horace's odes - S reads and translates Plato's Symposium - he reads Peregrinus Proteus and Hume's England aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoSymposiumPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy'Percy Bysshe Shelley PlatoSymposiumPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. finishes correcting the Symposium and I begin to transcribe it'Mary Shelley PlatoSymposiumManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Wednesday April 14th. [...] Read S--'s translation of Plato's Symposium.'Claire Clairmont Plato SymposiumManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Thursday April 15th. [...] Read Plato's Symposium.'Claire Clairmont Plato SymposiumManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Friday April 16 -- Finish the Symposium of Plato'.Claire Clairmont Plato SymposiumManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Mr G. read 18 Canto of Tasso to me - read the Symposium to Mrs G'Mary Shelley PlatoSymposiumPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday August 10th. Finish Caleb Williams -- Read Symposion [sic] [...] Translate Demosthenes. Read Saggio Istorico. [...] 'Friday August 11th. Read Symposi...Claire Clairmont Plato SymposiumUnknown
1700-1799'Now I have mentioned this small but inimitable well wrote Book (Xenophon's 'Symposium'], which was recommended to me by Dr [italics] Swift [end italics], and which I in ...Laetitia Pilkington XenophonSymposiumPrint: Book
1900-1945'Marsh came across a "Synopsis" and started reading an article on Bacon. At last he flung it aside and said, "It seems this bloke Bacon wrote a book and signed it Willi... SynopsisPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Most of the books I choose from the free library are for the wife. I cast my eye over the books vaguely searching for likely looking binding. If one catches my eye, such... unknownsynopsis of bookPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699		Virginia F. Stern notes annotations made by Gabriel Harvey in his copy of Joannis Foorth, "Synopsis Politica"(1582).Gabriel Harvey Joannis FoorthSynopsis PoliticaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Aha! The transformed newspaper is an accomplished fact. The issue of December 12th carries its new name of "Syonan Sinbun" (=newspaper) but this is number five. Where ar...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" publish a long interview given by the Bishop of Singapore a few days ago, which is entirely fictitious!'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" headline on December 18th: "Tokyo Wins War of Radio Waves". The newspaper lauds the superiority of Japanese broadcasts over those of the Allies.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A notice in "The Syonan Sinbun" again calls upon all owners of short-wave wireless sets to hand them over for conversion to medium wave only, "failing which punishment s...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The newspaper reports that the so-clever Nipponese scientists are not only going to eradicate venereal disease, but also discover its causes.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" advertises a slogan competition for the anniversary of the fall of Singapore: "Slogans should clearly show the invulnerable position of Nippon for th...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports that the museum authorities in Singapore are busy translating all the thousands of explanatory data from English to Nippon-go. English is to ...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper


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