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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699''and so home; and they home, and I to read with satisfaction in my book of Turky and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: 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'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 William DugdaleThe Origines JuridicialesPrint: 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 John PlayfordCatch that catch can, or The musical companionPrint: Book
1600-1699'and I to my chamber and there spent the night in reading my new book, "Origines Juridiciales", which pleases me. So to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys William DugdaleOrigines JuridicialesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and to read more in the Origines'Samuel Pepys William DugdaleOrigines JuridicialesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and I to my chamber and there read a great deal in Rycault's Turks book with great pleasure, and so eat and to bed'Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: 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'and then to the Change, where for certain I hear, and the newsbook declares, a peace between France and Portugal.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]London GazettePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'and so after supper to read and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then down to my chamber and made an end of Rycaults "History of the Turkes", which is a very good book.'Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so a little at the office and home, to read a little and to supper and bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and at noon all of us to Kent's at the Three Tun tavern and there dined well at Mr Gawden's charge. There the constable of the parish did show us the picklocks and dice ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][table-book]Manuscript: table-book
1600-1699'and then did get Sir W. Batten, J. Mennes and W. Penn together, and read it [Pepys's report on the case of Mr Carcasse] over with all the many papers relating to the bus...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking'Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'I presented our report about Carcasse to the Duke of York, and did afterwards read it, with that success that the Duke of York was for punishing him, not only with turni...Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys[report on the case of Mr Carcasse]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'I took leave of him, and directly by water home; and there to read the Life of Mr Hooker, which pleases me as much as anything I have read in a great while'Samuel Pepys Isaak WaltonLife of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's W...Print: Book
1600-1699'They being gone, I to my book again and made an end of Mr Hooker's life, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Isaak WaltonLife of Richard Hooker in an edition of Hooker's W...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to supper, and after a little reading, to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book


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