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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I have read your Anim. Magnetism, and think it among the best in the Number; worthy indeed of a far better place. I durst bet, the Blacks have not paid you yet: they ar...Thomas Carlyle John A. Carlyle'Animal Magnetism'Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1800-1849'Last night, I was listening to music and the voice of song amid dandy clerks and sparkling females - laughing at times even to soreness at the marvellous Dr John Scott (...Thomas Carlyle John Scott'Blackwood's Magazine' [ARTICLE TITLE] in 'The Lon...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'There is also Madame de Stael on the French revolution - first volume only finished - remarks (if any) in the next letter.' Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-Holstein'Considerations on the French Revolution'Print: Book
1800-1849'? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is by far the best novel that has been written these th...Thomas Carlyle Georges Cuvier'Discours preliminaire' to Recherches sur les osse...Print: Book
1800-1849It is long since I told you that I had begun Wallace, and that foreign studies had cast him into the shade. The same causes still obstruct my progress You will perhaps ...Thomas Carlyle William Wallace'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Soon after my arrival here, I fell to Wallace's fluxions, with might and main. I would study, I thought, with great vehemence, every night - and the two hours at noon, ...Thomas Carlyle William Wallace'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Carlyle transcribes a poem by John Leyden he has read in Hogg's 'Spy' and sends it to Robert Mitchell] 'Well, if I am not much deceived you will thank me, for transcribi...Thomas Carlyle John Leyden'Shout, Britons, for the Battle of Asaye'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.'Thomas Carlyle John A. Carlyle'Some passages from the Diary of the late Mr St Jo...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri...Thomas Carlyle William Hazlitt'Standard Novels'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I perused your theorems with some attention. They are well worthy of a place in the Courier - though not for the purpose you mention. Mr Johnston, if I mistake not, is ...Thomas Carlyle Robert Mitchell'theorems'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have got old Ascham, and read a little of him, when I have done work, every evening.'Thomas Carlyle Roger Ascham?'Toxophilus' and 'The Scholemaster'Unknown
1800-1849'But Dr Chalmers, it would seem, is fearful lest these speculations [on the nature of the universe] lead us away from Christianity and has written a volume of discourses ...Thomas Carlyle Thomas ChalmersA Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation...Print: Book
1800-1849'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It occurred to me, much about the same time, that it w...Thomas Carlyle Thomas SimpsonA Treatise of FluxionsPrint: Book
1800-1849'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arriving a short way into the third book - I discovered...Thomas Carlyle Jean Baptiste Joseph DelambreAbrege d'astronomiePrint: Book
1800-1849'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe...Thomas Carlyle Francois FenelonAbrege des vies des anciens philosophesPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jardine, who broke his engagement); and in looking over ...Thomas Carlyle John BristedAmerica and her ResourcesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never read any thing but Pope's translation, and not above a ...Thomas Carlyle XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "Edinr reviews" - and if you honour the maxim, audi al...Thomas Carlyle Robert SoutheyArticle ivPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "Edinr reviews" - and if you honour the maxim, audi al...Thomas Carlyle JeffreyArticle IXPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I consign you therefore if desirous of additional information, to two well-written articles by Jeffrey in the last "Edinr reviews" - and if you honour the maxim, audi al...Thomas Carlyle Robert SoutheyArticle ixPrint: Serial / periodical



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