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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'went to Westminster-hall and there bought Mr Grant's book of observations upon the weekly bills of Mortality - which appear to me, upon first sight, to be very pretty.'Samuel Pepys John GrauntNatural and political observations... made upon th...Print: Book
1600-1699'At night to my chamber to read and sing; and so to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home; and no sooner come but Sir W. Warren comes to me to bring me a paper of Fields (with whom we have lately had a great deal of trouble at the office), being a bit...Samuel Pepys Fields[petition]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'...and so took boat again and got to London before them. All the way, coming and going, reading in "The Wallflower" with great pleasure.'Samuel Pepys Thomas BaylyHerba Parietis or The wall-flower, as it grew out ...Print: Book
1600-1699'Up earely; and after reading a little in Cicero, I made me ready and to my office - where all the morning busy.'Samuel Pepys Cicero[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'At my office all the morning, reading Mr Holland's discourse of the Navy, lent me by Mr Turner; and am much pleased with them, they hitting the very diseases of the Navy...Samuel Pepys John Holland[discourse on Naval administration]Print: Book
1600-1699'He being gone, I to my study and read; and so to eat a bit of bread and cheese and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'This night Tom came to show me a civil letter sent him from his mistress.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][letter]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'Then we fell to reading of a book which I saw the other day at my Lord Sandwichs, entended for the late King, finely bound up - a treatise concerning the benefit the Hol...Samuel Pepys Tobias GentlemanEnglands way to win wealth... with a true relation...Print: Book
1600-1699'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of late have taken up to read, and is very fine as any...Samuel Pepys Guillaume de Salluste du BartasDivine weekes and workesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to supper. And after reading part of "Bussy D'Ambois", a good play I bought today - to bed.'Samuel Pepys George ChapmanBussy D'AmboisPrint: Book
1600-1699'So I made Gosnell [sing] and we sat up, looking over the book of Dances till 12 at night, not observing how the time went; and so to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys PlayfordDancing Master OR English Dancing MasterPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then to the office and there examining my Copy of Mr Hollands book till 10 at night; and so home to supper and bed.'Samuel Pepys John Holland[discourse on Naval administration]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to the office again and made an end of examining the other of Mr Hollands books about the Navy, with which I am much contented'Samuel Pepys John Holland[second discourse on Naval administration]Print: Book
1600-1699'It being cold, Mr Lee and [I] did sit all the day, till 3 a-clock, by the fire in the Governors house; I reading a play of Flechers, being "A wife for a month" - wherein...Samuel Pepys John FletcherA wife for a monthPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so went home, taking Mr Leigh with me; and after drunk a cup of wine, he went away and I to my office, there reading in Sir W Pettys book, and so home - and to bed'Samuel Pepys [anon]A treatise of taxes and contributionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so up and by the fireside we read a good part of the "Advice to a Daughter", which a simple Coxcombe hath wrote against Osborne; but in all my life I never did nor c...Samuel Pepys John HeydonAdvice to a daughter in opposition to the advice t...Print: Book
1600-1699'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having called for it by the way) and so to bed'Samuel Pepys OvidMetamorphosesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so to my office, practising arthmetique alone and making an end of last night's book, with great content, till 11 at night; and so home to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]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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