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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'so home to dinner with my poor wife; and after dinner read a lecture to her in Geography, which she takes very prettily, and with great pleasure to her and me to teach h...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: 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'So home to my office, alone till dark, reading some part of my old "Navy precedents", and so home to supper.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Navy precedentsPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to prayers, and then to read my vowes and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home to read and sup; and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home to supper, and then to read a little in Moore's "Antidote against Atheisme", a pretty book; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys Henry MoreAn antidote against atheism, or, An appeal to the ...Print: Book
1600-1699'So home to supper, and to read the book I bought yesterday of the Turkish Policy, which is a good book, well writ; and so owned by Dr Clerke yesterday to me, commending ...Samuel Pepys Paul RycaultThe present state of the Ottoman empirePrint: Book
1600-1699'So home, and then down to Woolwich, reading and making an end of "The Rivall Ladys", and find it a very pretty play.'Samuel Pepys John DrydenThe Rival LadysPrint: Book
1600-1699'So home, reading all the way a good book;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home; and after reading my vowes, being sleepy, without prayers to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
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'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'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'So stayed within all day, reading of two or three good plays.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][plays]Print: Book
1600-1699'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a very shrewd piece.'Samuel Pepys Thomas HobbesOf libertie and necessitiePrint: Book
1600-1699'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a very shrewd piece.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown- little but shrewd piece]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'So to my office, writing letters, and then to read and make an end of Rushworth; which I did, and do say that it is a book the best worth reading for a man of my conditi...Samuel Pepys John RusthworthHistorical CollectionPrint: Book
1600-1699'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this year doth not prove so good as the last was; and so after reading it, I burned it. After reading of that ...Samuel Pepys [John] [Phillips?]Montelion, the prophetical almanac for the year 16...Print: Pamphlet, almanac


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