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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'Mary Godwin John LockeAn Essay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Drawing Lesson - write - read Locke - & walk - Shelley reads Roscoe's life of Lorenzo de Medicis - Read Lucian and work in the evening. Read severy [for several)] odes o...Mary Godwin John LockeEssay concerning Humane UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sunday Feb. 13th. Begin Locke's essay on the Understanding'. Claire Clairmont John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Feb. 17th. [...] Read 1st Chapter of Locke's Essay. [...] Finish the 2nd part of Paine's Age of Reason.'Claire Clairmont John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Feb. 18th. [...] Read Locke [goes on to make detailed notes].'Claire Clairmont John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday Feb. 21st. Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra. Also a little of Davanzati's Tacitus [...] Read Locke.' Claire Clairmont John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Feb. 24th. [...] Read La Cisma de Ingalaterra [...] Also a little of Locke.'Claire Clairmont John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday April 14th. [...] Begin Locke's on the Understanding.' ['Read Locke' subsequently recorded in entries for 15, 17, 18, 22, 29 April]. Claire Clairmont John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingPrint: Book
1800-1849'At twelve I enjoyed a literary life in all its pleasures. Metaphysics were my highest delights and after having read a page from Locke my mind not only felt edified but...Elizabeth Barrett John LockeunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aenied aloud - read Condorcet's life of Voltaire - S. re...Percy Bysshe Shelley John Locke[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gave to my father & me each a Copy. His Motto, I think ...Marianne Francis John LockeEssay Concerning Humane Understanding, AnPrint: Book
1800-1849[on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged] 'These friends not only debated on politics but read their Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Bu...The ApostlesJohn Locke Print: Book
'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wished that Milton's "Tractate on Education" should be...Samuel Johnson John LockeSome Thoughts Concerning EducationPrint: Unknown
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840: 'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "Kritik der reinen Vernunft," a book which always le...George Grote John Locke Print: Book
1900-1945'... at about half past two walking up Oxford Street I saw Bumpus's, the famous bookshop. There was an exhibition on there free of charge, the library and papers of John ...Cyril Lionel Robert James John Locke Manuscript: Manuscript notebook.
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 3 June 1802, 'We have been reading the Life and some of the writings of poor Logan since dinner.'William and Dorothy WordsworthJohn LoganunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Just as this is written enter my Lord of St Albans and Lady Charlotte to beg I recommend a book of sermons to Mrs. Coutts - much obliged for her good opinion - recommend...Walter Scott John LoganSermonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have meditated also a large work, on the Plan of ... Campbell's Chancellors ...'Robert Louis Stevenson John Lord CampbellLives of the Lord Chancellors etcPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Lubbock's Prehistoric Ages'.George Eliot [pseud.] John LubbockPrehistoric TimesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Spent a very sleepy afternoon nodding over "Midas"'.Hilary Spalding John LylyMidasPrint: Book


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