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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	'When we speak of calculi - I brought home [some f]ew mathematical books, which I must tell you of - Bossuts "history [of] mathematics", Woods "optics", Cunn's "Euclid" a...	Thomas Carlyle	James Wood	The Elements of Optics	Print: 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	James Wood	The Elements of Optics	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many a thick octa[vo] - many of them to little purpose. B...	Thomas Carlyle	William Wilkie	The Epigoniad	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I see no paper but an old Examiner - strong meat - an Olla Podrida, high-flavoured but coarse and na[u]seous to a sentimentalist.'	Thomas Carlyle	Leigh Hunt	The Examiner	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'The Examiner comes with perfect regularity; and tho' a week old is a great blessing. Continue it, if you can. Nay, if it came on Saturday (that is half a week old) thi...	Thomas Carlyle		The Examiner	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'The two Examiners came on Wednesday: we like them much.'	Thomas Carlyle		The Examiner	Print: Serial / periodical
	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
	1800-1849	'I saw Scott's "Waterloo" and "Guy Mannering" when I was in Edinr[.] The former has been so dreadfully abused already - that I have nothing to add to the Newspaper puns, ...	Thomas Carlyle	Walter Scott	The Field of Waterloo, A Poem	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	Joseph Addison	The Free-holder, I-LV	Print: 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 Hume	The 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 Hume	The History of England During the Reigns of James ...	Print: 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	Homer	The Iliad / Odyssey	Print: 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	Alexander Pope	The Iliad / Odyssey of Homer	Print: Book
	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	'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 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 Stewart	The Life and Writings of William Robertson	Print: 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	James Beattie	The Minstrel	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'The other night I sat up till four o'clock, reading Matthew Lewis's "Monk". It is the most stupid & villainous novel that I have read for a great while. Considerable por...	Thomas Carlyle	Matthew Lewis	The Monk	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
		'I now, after too long delays, return you the Westminster Review, with Chalmers' Picture of Scotland; both of which I was very glad to see. The Picture is a very amusing ...	Thomas Carlyle	Robert Chambers	The Picture of Scotland	Print: Book

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