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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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'You have no doubt seen the "Tales of my Landlord". Certainly "Waverl[e]y" and "Mannering" and "the Black Dwarf" were never written by the same person. If I mistake not -...Thomas Carlyle Walter ScottTales of My LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849'You have no doubt seen the "Tales of my Landlord". Certainly "Waverl[e]y" and "Mannering" and "the Black Dwarf" were never written by the same person. If I mistake not -...Thomas Carlyle Thomas M'CrieVindication of the CovenantersPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspaper the "Scotsman" has reached the third number. I hav...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]The ScotsmanPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspaper the "Scotsman" has reached the third number. I hav...Thomas Carlyle [unknown]The Sale RoomPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Having heard some lectures on Spurzheim's ideas] 'I have since looked into the Dr's book, and if possible the case is worse. Certainly, it is not true, that, our intelle...Thomas Carlyle Johann Spurzheim[work on phrenology]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Quarterly" reviews. In the latter, among a great deal o...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Quarterly" reviews. In the latter, among a great deal o...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I was reading Pascal's "lettres provinciales". None can help admiring his wit & probity. He sustains excellently the character of [italics]naivet?[end italics]which he h...Thomas Carlyle Blaise PascalLes Provinciales, ou les lettresPrint: Book
1800-1849'Last week I perused von Buch's "travels in Norway & Lapland". Much of his attention is devoted to Mineralogy, of which I am very ignorant, and his movements are sometime...Thomas Carlyle Christian Leopold, Baron von BuchReise durch Norwegen und LapplandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I took Bail]ly's "histoire d'Astronomie", out of the College library, last time I was over the firth. [He seems] to write with great eloquence & perspicuity; but I have ...Thomas Carlyle Jean Sylvain BaillyHistoire de l'astronomie modernePrint: Book
1800-1849'We get a "Dumfries Courier" here amongst us. Our third Number reached us a few days ago. It seems M'Darmaid [M'Diarmid] is become sole Editor; - it is not the opinion of...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Dumfries CourierPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Three weeks ago, I finished M. Bailly's "histoire de l'Astronomie Modern[e.]" His acquaintance with the science seems to have been more extensive than profound; his stil...Thomas Carlyle Jean Sylvain BaillyHistoire de l'astronomie modernePrint: Book
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'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes & cure of mendicity. After expatiating at considerabl...Thomas Carlyle Thomas Chalmers[article on paperism in Edinburgh Review]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes & cure of mendicity. After expatiating at considerabl...Thomas Carlyle Robert Southey[article in Quarterly Review]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes & cure of mendicity. After expatiating at considerabl...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]The ScotsmanPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very dili...Thomas Carlyle William Wallace[article on Fluxions in Encyclopaedia Britannica]Print: Book
1800-1849'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very dili...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Literary and Statistical Magazine for ScotlandPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very dili...Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine, Madame de StaelDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book


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