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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I am highly indebted to you for Hume. I like his essays better than any thing I have read these many days. He has prejudices, he does maintain errors - but he defends hi...Thomas Carlyle David HumeEssays Moral, Political and LiteraryPrint: Book
1800-1849'The best book I have read, since I wrote you, is Hume's "Essays, political and literary". It is indeed a most ingenious production - characterised by acuteness and origi...Thomas Carlyle David HumeEssays Moral, Political and LiteraryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s eight chaotic volumes are before me. To say nothing o...Thomas Carlyle David HumeThe History of England during the reigns of James ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man...Thomas Carlyle David HumeThe History of England During the Reigns of James ...Print: Book
1800-1849'I [ac]cordingly wrote off to St. Andrews; and the next day, to all the four winds in quest of recommendations. To Goethe, to Irving, to Buller, to Brewster &c &c. Thes...Thomas Carlyle David (dr) BrewsterRecommendationManuscript: Letter of recommendation
1800-1849This is emphatic enough.- I need not speak of Dr Chalmers' boisterous treatise upon the causes & cure of pauperism in the last Edinr review. His reasoning (so they call ...Thomas Carlyle Dr ChalmersTitle unknownPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'27th June - The last book worth mentioning, which I perused was Stewart's preliminary dissertation - for the second time. The longer I study the works of this philosoph...Thomas Carlyle Dugald StewartPhilosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in their censures of "the metaphysical heresies" of th...Thomas Carlyle Dugald StewartElements of the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the principles of morality". The first is a sensible sort of bo...Thomas Carlyle Dugald StewartThe Life and Writings of William RobertsonPrint: 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 Dugald StewartPhilosophical EssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysic...Thomas Carlyle Dugald Stewart[Introductory essay to Encyclopaedia Britannica]Print: Book
1800-1849'My habits have been so much deranged by change of place, that I have not yet got rightly settled to my studies. I have read little since I saw you: and of that little, I...Thomas Carlyle Dugald StewartElements of the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think of putting this letter in the post-office to night. My hour's since morning have been spent in reading Ariosto and "Six weeks at Longs." The latter end of this d...Thomas Carlyle Eaton Stannard BarrettSix Weeks at Long'sPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Spenser these some mornings, while eating my breakfast. He is a dainty little fellow, as ever you saw: I propose that you and he shall be closely acquainted by a...Thomas Carlyle Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1800-1849I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called...Thomas Carlyle Edward GibbonDecline & Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s eight chaotic volumes are before me. To say nothing o...Thomas Carlyle Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man...Thomas Carlyle Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'I spent the day in reading part of Irving's sermons, which I have not finished. On the whole he should not have published it - till after a considerable time. There is...Thomas Carlyle Edward IrvingFor The Oracles Of God, Four OrationsPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Thank your kind friend and host for his little Book, great part of which I read that afternoon: but my Mother got it and carried it down with her, she seemed to so anxio...Thomas Carlyle Edward IRvingOrthodox and Catholic Doctrine of Our Lord's Human...Print: Book
1800-1849'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It were long to tell you fully my opinion of the work, w...Thomas Carlyle Eliza DraperInscription to Raynal's 'History of the E. and W. ...Print: Book


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