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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joannes Scotus ErigenaDe divisione naturae libri quinquePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Joannes Scotus ErigenaDe divisione naturae libri quinquePrint: Book
1500-1599'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 1527 folio containing Sacrobosco's "Textus de Sphaera",...Gabriel Harvey Joannis de SacroboscoTextus de SphaeraPrint: Book
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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
1700-1799'I went to see E. Golder, and friend Bullen came in ... we read a little in the Testament and the journal of Job Scott'Elizabeth Gurney Job ScottJournal of the life, travels and Gospel labours of...Print: Book
1700-1799'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, which I like vastly and found really doing me good, at l...Elizabeth Gurney Job ScottJournal of the life, travels and Gospel labours of...Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, August 1809: 'I have been reading a strange poem -- the "Columbiad" of Poet [Joel] Barlow. Who or what he is I know not, except that he is an Americ...Mary Berry Joel BarlowThe ColumbiadPrint: Book
1900-1945'Once, in the midst of trying to read a Strindberg play, I felt ghostly fingers gently stirring my hair, and twice mysterious footsteps walked slowly up the ward, stopped...Vera Brittain Johan August StrindbergunknownPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'I do not perfectly understand Fabricius always, but I think his Genera more natural than those of any other Author; it is indeed almost impossible to follow him in the s...George Crabbe Johan Christian FabriciusSystema entomologiaePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817, having observed upon preservation of black veil over Falieri's picture, and the staircase on which he was beheaded at the Doge's Palac...George Gordon Lord Byron Johan Christoph von SchillerGeisterseherPrint: Book
1800-1849From Chronology: Hemans's Life and Publications: '[in 1824] F[elicia] H[emans] studies German (Schiller, Herder, and Goethe, Korner).'Felicia Hemans Johan Wolfgang GoetheunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began "Reineke Fuchs"'George Eliot [pseud] Johan Wolfgang von GoetheReineke FuchsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & go...George Crabbe Johan Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1700-1799'Took Beckman's "History of Inventions" to the Library; I have been very much entertained with it. Brought the "Gent. Mag" for 1793.'Joseph Hunter Johann BeckmannA History of Inventions and DiscoveriesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished the last vol of Beckmann's "History of Inventions"; I do not know the book that contains a greater variety of information mixed with so much amusement, than the...Joseph Hunter Johann BeckmannA History of Inventions and DiscoveriesPrint: Book
1850-1899'began Buhle's "History of Modern Philosophy"'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann BuhleTextbook on the History of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann JahnAppendix hermeneuticae seu exercitationes exegeticPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Johann JahnThe History of the Hebrew CommonwealthPrint: Book
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1800-1849		William Blake, on margin of his copy of Johann Lavater, Aphorisms: "'I hop no one will call what I have written cavilling ... For I write from the warmth of my heart, & c...William Blake Johann LavaterAphorismsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Having heard some lectures on Spurzheim's ideas] 'I have since looked into the Dr's book, and if possible the case is worse. Certainly, it is not true, that, our intelle...Thomas Carlyle Johann Spurzheim[work on phrenology]Print: Book


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