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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1700-1799	'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Johnson. At this time I found, upon his table, a part o...	James Boswell	John Taylor	Sermons left for publication by the Reverend John ...	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I looked into Lord Kaimes's "Sketches of the History of Man"; and mentioned to Dr. Johnson his censure of Charles the Fifth, for celebrating his funeral obsequies in hi...	James Boswell	Henry Home, Lord Kames	Sketches of the History of Man	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to which he was to write Prefaces. Dr. Taylor (the onl...	James Boswell	Gilbert Burnet	Some passages of the life and death of the Right H...	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I expressed a liking for Mr. Francis Osborne's works, and asked him what he thought of that writer. He answered, "A conceited fellow. Were a man to write so now, the boy...	James Boswell	Joseph Addison	Spectator, The	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poetically of serges and druggets ? Yet you will hear many peop...	James Boswell	James Grainger	Sugar Cane, The	Print: Book
	1700-1799	' [Johnson said] "There is much talk of the misery which we cause to the brute creation; but they are recompensed by existence. If they were not useful to man, and theref...	James Boswell	Francis Hutcheson	System of Moral Philosophy	Print: Book
	1700-1799	Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress'] w...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions ...	Print: Pamphlet
	1700-1799	Unfavourable as I am constrained to say my opinion of this pamphlet [Johnson's 'Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions and Address of the American Congress'] w...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Taxation no Tyranny; an answer to the Resolutions ...	Print: Pamphlet, proof leaves of a pamphlet with handwritten corrections
	1700-1799	'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand he was reserved, and might appear dull in company; b...	James Boswell	Thomas Gray	The Bard: A Pindaric Ode	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'I then got "The North Briton" and read it at Child's. I shall do so now every Saturday evening'	James Boswell	[n/a]	The North Briton	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Briton" from the publisher of it, Mr Kearsley in Ludga...	James Boswell	[n/a]	The North Briton	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'I returned to my friend's chambers and we read some of Mr Addison's papers in "The Spectator" with infinite relish'	James Boswell	Joseph Addison	The Spectator	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to him; but I am confident, from internal evidence, that ...	James Boswell	[n/a]	The Universal Visitor	Print: Serial / periodical
	1700-1799	'On Sunday, April 12, I found him at home before dinner; Dr. Dodd's poem entitled "Thoughts in Prison" was lying upon his table. This appearing to me an extraordinary eff...	James Boswell	William Dodd	Thoughts in Prison	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'His description of its [the situation in the Falklands] miseries in this pamphlet ['Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands'] is one of the fines...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkl...	Print: Pamphlet
	1700-1799	'We talked of his two political pamphlets, "The False Alarm," and "Thoughts concerning Falkland's Islands." Johnson. "Well, sir, which of them did you think the best?" Bo...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Thoughts on the Late Transactions respecting Falkl...	Print: Pamphlet
	1700-1799	'Fielding being mentioned, Johnson exclaimed, "he was a blockhead :" and upon my expressing my astonishment at so strange an assertion, he said, "What I mean by his being...	James Boswell	Henry Fielding	Tom Jones	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Mr. Seward mentioned to us the observations which he had made upon the strata of earth in volcanoes, from which it appeared, that they were so very different in depth at...	James Boswell	Patrick Brydone	Tour Through Sicily and Malta. In A Series of Lett...	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'On Sunday, March 31, I called on him, and shewed him as a curiosity which I had discovered, his "Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia", which Sir John Pringle had ...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Translation of Lobo's Account of Abyssinia	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'His "Vanity of Human Wishes" has less of common life, but more of a philosophick dignity than his "London". More readers, therefore, will be delighted with the pointed s...	James Boswell	Samuel Johnson	Vanity of Human Wishes, The	Print: Unknown

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