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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Dear Sir,—I have received your beautiful volume, probably the finest bit of typography that ever came before me; and have looked over it with interest and pleasure—certa...Thomas Carlyle Robert StoryThe Poetical Works Of Robert StoryPrint: Book
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'I was very much obliged by the Scotsman you sent me to Foley Place, and the criticism of Meister contained in it - shallow and narrow enough it is true, but favourable a...Thomas Carlyle The ScotmanPrint: 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'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 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 Jane PorterThe Scottish Chiefs, A RomancePrint: Book
1800-1849'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two weeks. During two or three days, I was not able to ...Thomas Carlyle Joseph AddisonThe SpectatorPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
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 Adam SmithThe Wealth of NationsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read these leaves of your thesis; and really I find them very far beyond my expectation, which had satisfied itself with ranking your Latin (I now discover) far t...Thomas Carlyle John A. CarlyleThesis for medical degree "De Mentis Alientione" (...Manuscript: Degree thesis
1800-1849'Assure Mr Montagu, that his Book was the most delightful I have read for many days. Your hand also was visible in it. Why does he not publish more such?' Thomas Carlyle Basil MontaguThoughts on Laughter By a Chancery BarristerUnknown
1800-1849'Could you learn for me which is Lafontaine's best novel in one moderate volume? I have read his Raphael (in French), his Rudolph von Werdenberg, and his Tinchen (in Ger...Thomas Carlyle Auguste Heinrich Julius LafontaineTinchen oder die MannerprobePrint: Book
1800-1849'A pack of sheets came down on Monday morning, with a long letter from the Bibliophile requiring an alteration in the Title-page and Preface; then Jonathan on Wednesday m...Thomas Carlyle Thomas CarlyleTitle page and preface of 'German Romance'Print: Title page and prefaceManuscript: Letter
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'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'I have no enthusiasm-cui bono? I always ask myself. It would be irksome, & impossible, in this state of my sheet, to criticise the elegant and ingenious rather than pow...Thomas Carlyle Jean Baptiste BiotTraite de PhysiquePrint: 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 William CoxeTravels in Poland, Russia, Sweden and DenmarkPrint: 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 William CoxeTravels in SwitzerlandPrint: 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 George Stewart MackenzieTravels in the Island of Iceland during the summer...Print: Book
1800-1849"Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri...Thomas Carlyle Lewis & ClarkeTravels up the MissouriPrint: Serial / periodical
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 George BerkeleyTreatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowle...Print: Book


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