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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1600-1699'and so away home by water, with more and more pleasure every time, I reading over my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae".'Samuel Pepys Francis BaconFaber FortunaePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so away presently very merry, and fell to reading of the several "Advices to a Painter", which made us good sport; and endeed are very witty'Samuel Pepys Andrew MarvellThe second and third advice to a painter, for draw...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so away to my Bezan again - and there to read in a pretty French book, "La Nouvelle Allegorique", upon the strife between Rhetorique and its enemies - very pleasant....Samuel Pepys Antoine FuretiereNouvelle Allegorique, ou Histoire des derniers tro...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so back home again, all the way reading a little piece I lately bought, call[ed] "The Virtuoso or The Stoicke", proposing many things paradoxicall to our common opin...Samuel Pepys George MackenzieReligio Stoici, with a friendly addresse to the ph...Print: Book
1600-1699'And so home and there to the office a little; and thence to my chamber to read and supper, and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so home and to my business, and to read again and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to my chamber to read; and then to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to my office a while to read my vowes. The home to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'and so home and to supper and read'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to supper and to Selden "Mare Clausum" and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys John SeldenMare ClausumPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so home and to supper, and then saw the Catalogue of my books which my brother hath wrote out, now perfectly Alphabetical; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [Samuel and John] Pepys[Catalogue of his books]Manuscript: Unknown
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'and so home and with her [wife] all the evening, reading and at musique with my boy, with great pleasure; and so to supper, prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so home by Coach and I late reading in my Chamber; and then to bed, my wife being angry that I keep the house up so late.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to read a little more in last night's book with much sport, it being a foolish book.'Samuel Pepys Duchess of NewcastleThe life of the thrice noble, high and puissant pr...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to supper and to read myself asleep, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to supper and to read, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so home to supper; and after reading a good while in the Kings "works", which is a noble book - to bed.'Samuel Pepys [King] [Charles I]The workes of Charles IPrint: Book
1600-1699'And so home with great ease and content, especially out of the content which I met with in a book I bought yesterday; being a discourse of the state of Rome under the pr...Samuel Pepys Angelo CorraroRome exactly described... in two curious discourse...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and after a little reading, to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book



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