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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'In the Age this morning there was an Article on prison labor & Labor in the Melbourne Gaol particularly, it was evidently well disposed towards me but also it was eviden...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Got up in a funk & sent for the Age, was delighted to find the Article about the Gaol was not inserted'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'There was a tale in the Age of yesterday called "The wife's revenge" it was very well written & described a heartless scoundrel who to the world appeared everything that...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899' In Bourke Street I met Joe White & we commenced as usual chatting on different subjects. I asked what sort of a place the "Oriental Saloon" was as an article had appea...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet very bitter about the acceptance of office of MacPherso...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'A Paragraph appeared in both the Argus & the Age this morning about Harry's accident & the boy was of course as pleased as Punch & as he was kept away from School rather...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I bought "The Age" as to-day it published a paper larger than "The Argus" for a penny & announced the intention of doing so every Saturday. The paper is really a wonderf...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'There was a stinging article in the Age of this morning commenting upon the failings & peculiarities of the Judges'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1837: 'I am sure I ought to be proud of my verses ["Victoria's Tears," about Queen Victoria's weeping during the ...Elizabeth Barrett George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Age of BronzePrint: Book
1800-1849'Byron has sent us a new poem the Age of Bronze: it is short, and pithy - but not at all poetical. Byron may still easily fail to be a great man. You shall see his Bron...Thomas Carlyle George Gordon ByronThe Age Of BronzePrint: BookManuscript: LetterUnknown
1850-1899'I have found Voltaire's ''Louis XIV. very pleasant and short, leaving out all the battles. Voltaire seems so impressed with his magnanimity and generosity ... V. seems r...Emma Darwin VoltaireThe Age of Lewis XIVPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'Uriah Plant, a wheelwright's son, affirmed that "My uncertainty about the truth of religion not only increased my sense of its importance... but gave me a habit of think...Uriah Plant Thomas PaineThe Age of ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason...Harriet Westbrook Thomas PaineThe Age of ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Coventry ribbon weaver Joseph Gutteridge [...] had read and pondered Voltaire's "Dictionary of Philosophy" and Paine's "Age of Reason", but remained unconvinced [by ...Joseph Gutteridge Thomas PaineThe Age of ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Feb. 14th. [...] Begin 1st part of Paine's Age of Reason. Also read part of his trial for that publication. [...] 'Tuesday Feb. [...] 15th. [...] Finish 1s...Claire Clairmont Thomas PaineThe Age of ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846: 'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not a proper book -- Dont read "Tom Jones" -- & none of...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Thomas Paine The Age of ReasonPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]The Age. A Poem. In eight books.Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel O'SullivanThe Agency of Divine Providence Manifested in thePrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts diary -- all about the war the last war; & the Herbert ...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareThe Ages of Man: Shakespeare's Image of Man and Na...Print: Book


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