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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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'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
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'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'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'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'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'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'Thence back by water to Captain Cockes, and there he and I spent a great deal of the evening, as we had done the day, reading and discoursing over part of Mr Stillingfle...Samuel Pepys Edward StillingfleeteOrigines Sacrae, or A rational account of the grou...Print: Book
1600-1699'Up and to Deptford by water, reading "Othello, Moore of Venice", which I ever heretofore esteemed a mighty good play; but having so lately read "The Adventures of five h...Samuel Pepys William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1600-1699'This day the first of the "Oxford Gazettes" came out, which is very pretty, full of news, and no folly in it - wrote by Williamson.'Samuel Pepys Sir Joseph WilliamsonOxford GazettePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'I in my chamber all the evening, looking over my Osborns works and new Emanuel Thesaurus's "Patriarchae".'Samuel Pepys Emanuel TesauroPatriarche, sive Christi servatoris genealogia, pe...Print: Book
1600-1699'and so parted at the New Exchange, where I stayed reading Mrs Phillips's poems till my wife and Mercer called me to Mrs Pierce's by invitation to dinner'Samuel Pepys Katherine PhillipsPoemsPrint: Book
1600-1699'So to the Custome-house; and there with great threats got a couple [watermen] to carry me down to Deptford, all the way reading "Pompey the Great" (a play translated fro...Samuel Pepys CorneillePompee: Pompey the Great, a tragedy. As it was act...Print: Book
1600-1699'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, though I believe he himself was as well able to do it as ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Pontificale romanum Clementis VIII, part 2Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence home and there with Mr Hater and W Hewer late, reading over all the Principal Officers' instructions in order to my great work upon my hand.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Principal Officer's instructionsUnknown
1600-1699'And after having been there so long, I away to my boat, and up with it as far as Barne Elmes, reading of Mr Eveling's late new book against Solitude, in which I do not f...Samuel Pepys John EvelynPublick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's ...Print: 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 John EvelynPublick enjoyment and an active life ... prefer's ...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


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