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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945[Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na...Bill Naughton John Locke Print: Book
1900-1945'[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu...Jack Ashley John Locke Print: Book
1850-1899"At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 September she started to take Fraser's Magazine, and her ...Louisa Martindale John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1900-1945'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna".....Charles Spencer Chaplin John Locke[unknown]Print: Book
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1800-1849		William Blake, in copy of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Works (1798) vol I: " '... I read Burkes Treatise [on the Sublime and Beautiful] when very Young at the same time I read Lo...William Blake John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1700-1799'I returned home and read four chapters of Winn's abridgement of Lock[e] on the human understanding. The transition from such a dissipate scene [a party she has left] to ...Anna Larpent John LockeEssay on human understandingPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read part of Locke's "Essay on Human Understanding", which I find to be a very abstruse book.'Thomas Turner John LockeAn essay concerning human understandingPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that I have not for several years looked int...George Gordon, Lord Byron John LockeTreatise on the Reasonableness of ChristianityPrint: Book
1800-18495 Feb 1836 Mary Birch To John Birch (son) 'How kind it was in you to copy that appropriate passage in Locke; and I, with the assistance of my good and intelligent governe...John Birch John LockeEssaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, thr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] John Locke[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Read the first Book of Locke's "Essay on the Human Understanding",--in refutation of the doctrine of innate principles...'Thomas Green John LockeEssay concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Locke in my old age never having read him in my youth, a fine satisfactory sort of fellow but very long winded'.Sydney Smith John Locke[Works]Print: Book
1700-1799[John Locke] "says it [is the] same faculty that invents judges".William Blake John LockeunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Locke.'Percy Bysshe Shelley John LockeAn Essay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke'Percy Bysshe Shelley John LockeAn Essay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening'Percy Bysshe Shelley John LockeAn Essay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening'Mary Godwin John LockeAn Essay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish 1st book of Locke - read Curt - & work - Shelley reads Locke, Plutarch, & Paradise Lost aloud.'Mary Godwin John LockeAn Essay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.Mary Godwin John LockeAn Essay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Locke - Shelley reads Locke and Curt - & Pamela aloud in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley John LockeAn Essay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book


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