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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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
1800-1849'After an interval of 5 hours, spent in reading the Edinr Review and excecuting various commissions, I resume my lucubrations. the unhappy carrier is not come.'Thomas Carlyle VariousEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Without reluctance, I push aside the massy quarto of Millar on the English government, to perform ther more pelasing duty of writing a few lines to you, by the conveyanc...Thomas Carlyle John MillarHistorical View of the English Government, AnPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was truly sorry and at the same time tickled to observe the abrupt conclusion of your letter. The thunder of Jack's snoring is not unknown to me; but poor fellow! yo...Thomas Carlyle Alexander CarlyleLetter (date unknown)Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'A review for Brewster's philosophical journal of a German book on Magnetism, I must also write or say I cannot - the former alternative is better: and then (as our man o...Thomas Carlyle Professor HansteenInquiries Concerning the Magnetism of the EarthPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
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 JeffreyArticle XPrint: 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
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'Nothing material has occurred to me since I returned from Mainhill. I wrote the first half of "Hunsteen" and translated, from the German, the first half of "Mohs";'Thomas Carlyle Friedrich MohsCrystalographyPrint: 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 Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoUnknown
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 have translated a portion of Schiller's History of the thirty years war (it is all about Gustavus and the fellow-soldados of Dugald Dalgetty your dearly-beloved friend...Thomas Carlyle Friedrich SchillerGeschichte des dreissigj?hrigen KriegsPrint: Book
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 a project on foot about translating one D'Aubuisson [a] Frenchman's geology - a large book, for the first edition I am to have 60 guineas - the same sum for eve...Thomas Carlyle Jean AubuissonTraite de geognoisePrint: Book
1800-1849'The colossal "Wallenstein" and Thekla the angelical, and Max her impetuous lofty-minded lover are all gone to rest; I have closed Schiller for a night; and what can I do...Thomas Carlyle Friedrich SchillerWallensteinPrint: Book
1800-1849'Waugh (the Review-man) sent me a book the other day, with a wish and an assurance that I "would write a very elegant and spirited critique on it" - which I am not so cer...Thomas Carlyle Joanna BaillieMetrical Legends of Exalted CharactersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Those latter volumes of the Allemagne will perplex you, I fear. The third in particular is very mysterious; now and then quite absurd. Do not mind it much.'Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-HolsteinDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Tell David Fergusson that I am charmed with his manuscript [a handwritten copy of Carlyle's "Life of Pascal"]; it is the prettiest [that] ever was written for the Encycl...Thomas Carlyle Thomas CarlyleLife of PascalManuscript: Sheet, Handwritten copy of Carlyle's own text
1800-1849'I had also to go this morning and read some old black-letter poems in the Advocates' Library: and the stomach, like a true British subject, is rebelling not a little aga...Thomas Carlyle unknown["black-letter poems"]Print: Book


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