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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	'It occurred to me; much about the same time that it would be proper to study Stewart's Essays, Berkel[e]y's principes of knowledge, Rumfords Essays, Newton ['s] Institut...	Thomas Carlyle	Sir Isaac Newton	Institutes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have looked into the Belfast Town and Country Almanack - and consulted several cunning men upon the subject - and from all quartrs, I collect - that the moon will be f...	Thomas Carlyle	anon	Belfast Town & County Almanack	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'With regard to the division of the circle into 360 parts,- I think it cannot be done by elementary Geometry - at least if M. Gauss is right - who (Leslie tells us) has d...	Thomas Carlyle	Sir John Leslie	Elements of Geometry	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I received about a month ago the Revd Willm Thomson of Ochiltree's new translation of the Testament. Of course I am no judge of his 'new renderings'; but the stile both...	Thomas Carlyle	William Thomson	The New Testament. Translated from the Greek, 3 vo...	Print: 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 Britannica	Print: Book
	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 been reading little [since I last wrote to you] except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c...	Thomas Carlyle	Tobias Smollett	History of England [probably]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The German book is getting praise rather than censure: I was about sending Alick a copy of the last Examiner Newspaper, where it was rather sensibly criticised. The man...	Thomas Carlyle	Signed as 'Q'	Review of 'German Romance' by Thomas Carlyle	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'.	Thomas Carlyle	John Milton	Prose works	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'.	Thomas Carlyle	George Fox	Historical Account of the Life, Travels,...of Geor...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read the 'bright city' and rejoiced to find your criticism of it so agreeable to my own. Milman is certainly a poet, but he takes a flight higher than he can sus...	Thomas Carlyle	Henry Hart Milman	Samor, the Lord of the Bright City	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Did [Benjamin Bell] write these verses? If so, he seems young at the art like us, but not without powers of doing better; dactyls are always difficult to manage, and hi...	Thomas Carlyle	Charles Hughes Terot	Poems	Manuscript: Sheet, Poems included in letter from Jane Baillie Welsh to TC
	1800-1849	'Byron's Magazine or rather Hunt's 'The Liberal' is arrived in town; but they will not sell it - it is so full of Atheism and Radicalism and other noxious isms. I had a ...	Thomas Carlyle	Leigh Hunt (EDITOR)	The Liberal	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Have you seen Dr Ures notice of Leslie's Meteorology, in Brande's Journal? Some one shewed it to me and it seemed a very unpalatable morsel: I know not whether you will...	Thomas Carlyle	Andrew Ure	Review of 'Description of Instruments, Designed fo...	Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'At present the honest people of "the letters" are much shocked at the appearance of Byron's and Hunt's Magazine "The Liberal", which hardly one of the Bibliopolists will...	Thomas Carlyle	Leigh Hunt (EDITOR)	The Liberal	Print: Book, Serial / periodical, The LiberalManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'I have spent a stupid day reading the Abbe de Sade's Memoirs of Petrarch. What a feeble whipster was this Petrarch with all his talents! To go dangling about, for the ...	Thomas Carlyle	Jacques Fracois Paul Alphonse, Abbe de Sade	Memoires pour la vie de Francois Petrarch	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It is already past twelve o'clock, and I am tired and sleepy; but I cannot go to rest without answering the kind little note which you sent me, and acknowledging these n...	Thomas Carlyle	Margaret A. Carlyle	Letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841: 'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; and now this day I have been looking into your Pippa p...	Thomas Carlyle	Robert Browning	Sordello	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841: 'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; and now this day I have been looking into your Pippa...	Thomas Carlyle	Robert Browning	Pippa Passes	Print: 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 Spenser	The Faerie Queene	Print: Book

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