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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1500-1599'and, after I retourned home, I praied priuatly, read a chapter of the bible, and wrought tell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'and after I had read 2 chapters of the Bible, I went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I rose with a heavy heart on the Sunday morning, and read mechanically a chapter in the little Bible in which my mother had blotted my name upon the title page: but my t...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible and the worn-out ... prayer-book, and the ... voice o... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him...Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'When I had been in school about twelve months, he resolved that one of the boys should read a chapter from the New Testament every Sunday after the opening prayer. I was...Christopher Thomson [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799?My Godmother sone [sic] provided me a testament but my mother not being able to Read the first Chapter of St Matthews Gospel I began the second and read it through as we...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I left off swearing and prodigality and took to reading my Bible and attending divine workship and in doing this I laid hold of some of the promises of the gospel and ap...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799?I Remembered when I was about 8 or 9 years of age my mother had been Correcting me for something I had done wrong and I thought I would be revenged on her I had been rea...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'She [his aunt] did not allow me to be idle, but alternately employed me in helping to knit stockings and in reading. While I was unemployed I found a never-failing sourc...Thomas Carter [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were Hervey's "Meditations", "The Pilgrim's Progress", a...Thomas Carter [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I went home and told my wife and took my Bible and opened it upon the 37th Psalm I read it and found much Comfort from it and made it a matter of prayer and the Lord ena...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'the whole of the Church concerned with us in sentiment except my Brother and his wife and they stedfastly opposed us but this we did not mind for we gave up ourselves up...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'A few years ago the curate of the village called upon the old man to converse with him on religious matters; after some talk, he promised to send him a Bible, "his honou...Isaac [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799?The enthusiastic notions which I had imbibed, and the desire I had to be talking about religious mysteries, etc answered one valuable purpose; as it caused me to embrace...James Lackington BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading the Bible'George Eliot [pseud.] BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Scriptures and Natural history readings'.John Cole BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'Next year my parents took me home during the winter quarter, and put me to school with a lad named Ker, who was teaching the children of a neighbouring farmer. Here I ad...James Hogg BiblePrint: 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 [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Mr Gilman of South Carolina to his brother, 1835, on visit from Harriet Martineau: 'She found out our hours of family prayer and always came in most punctually with her f...Harriet Martineau BiblePrint: Book


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