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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'At night fell to read in Hookers "Ecclesiastical policy" which Mr Moore did give me last Wednesday, very handsomely bound; and which I shall read with great pains and lo...Samuel Pepys Richard HookerOf the lawes of ecclesiastical politiePrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the following in his diary the previous day (15 April): 'Then...Samuel Pepys Richard HookerWorks... in eight books of ecclesiastical polityPrint: Book
1600-1699'and here I read the Qu's to Knepp while she answered me, through all her part of "Flora's Figarys", which was acted today' [She = Nell Gwyn]Samuel Pepys Richard RhodesFlora's VagariesPrint: Book
1600-1699'After dinner by water, the day being mighty pleasant and the tide serving finely - I up (reading in Boyles book of Colours) as high as Barne Elmes'Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and there to write down my Journall, and so to supper and to read and so to bed - mightily pleased with my reading Boyles book of Colours today; only, troub...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1600-1699'I to boat again and to my book; and having done that, I took another book, Mr Boyles of Colours, and there read where I left [28 April?], finding many fine things worthy...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1600-1699'Being weary and almost blind with writing and reading so much today, I took boat at the Old Swan, and there up the River all alone, as high as Puttny almost; and then ba...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleExperiments and considerations touching coloursPrint: Book
1600-1699'But I fell to read a book (Boyle's "Hydrostatickes") aloud in my chamber and let her talk till she was tired, and vexed that I would not hear her'Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So I homeward, as long as it was light reading Mr Boyles book of "Hydrostatickes", which is a most excellent book as ever I read; and I will take much pains to understan...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so with very much pleasure down to Gravesend, all the way with extraordinary content reading of Boyl's "Hydrostatickes", which the more I read and understand, the mo...Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so walked to Barne Elmes, whither I sent Russell, reading of Mr Boyles "Hydrostatickes", which are of infinite delight.'Samuel Pepys Robert BoyleHydrostatical ParadoxesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr Hooke's "Microscopicall Observacions", the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.'Samuel Pepys Robert HookeMicrographia [?]Print: Book
1600-1699'In the morning my father and I walked in the garden and read the Will; where though he gives me nothing at present till my father's death, or at least very little, yet I...Samuel Pepys Robert PepysThe Will of Robert Pepys of BramptonManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'Home at noon, and there find Mr Moore and with him to an ordinary alone and dined; and there he and I read my Uncles Will and I had his opinion on it, and still find mor...Samuel Pepys Robert PepysThe Will of Robert Pepys of BramptonManuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'...and with them to Marshes at Whitehall to drink, and stayed there a pretty while reading a pamphlet, well-writ and directed to Generall Monke in praise of the form of ...Samuel Pepys Roger L'Estrange [? probably]A plea for limited monarchy, as it was established...Print: Pamphlet
1600-1699'and then to my boat again and home, reading and making an end of the book I lately bought, a merry Satyre called "The Visions", translated from Spanish by Le Strange; wh...Samuel Pepys Roger L'Estrange [translator]The visions of Don Francisco de QuevedoPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence by water to Redriffe, reading a new French book my Lord Brouncker did give me today, "L'histoire amoureuse des Gaules", being a pretty Libell against the amours o...Samuel Pepys Roger de Rabutin, Comte de BussyL'histoire amoureuse des GaulesPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so I home to dinner, and thence abroad to Pauls churchyard and there looked upon the second part of "Hudibras", which I buy not but borrow to read, to see if it be a...Samuel Pepys Samuel ButlerHudibrasPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence by water to Chelsy, all the way reading a little book I bought of Improvement of trade, a pretty book and many things useful in it.'Samuel Pepys Samuel FortreyEnglands interest and improvement consisting in th...Print: Book
1600-1699'So to the office till 10 at night upon business, and numbering and examining part of my Sea=manuscript with great pleasure - my wife sitting working by me.'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[Sea Manuscript]Manuscript: Sheet


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