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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	'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	Edward Gibbon	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Of Richter I yet know little; I havelooked into his Herbst-Bluminen, his Flegaljahre, and am now reading his Fibel. It is easy to see already that next to Goethe (and T...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean Paul Friedrich Richter	Die Flegeljahre	Print: Book
	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	John Playfair	Dissertation Second: Exhibiting a general View of ...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of literature have scarcely been wider. Rousseau's "Contr...	Thomas Carlyle	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Du Contrat Social	Print: 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 Courier	Print: Newspaper
	1800-1849	'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number of which has appeared. B. advertises a new one with a...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	Edinburgh Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number of which has appeared. B. advertises a new one with a...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	Edinburgh Monthly Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number of which has appeared. B. advertises a new one with a...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	Edinburgh observer or Town and Country Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	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	Various	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I have seen the last number of the Edinr review at Mount-annan. I regret, with you, that Jeffrey should bestow so much of his time on Politics; and I rejoice in the pros...	Thomas Carlyle	Francis Jeffrey	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri,...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	Edinburgh Review	Print: 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]	Edinburgh Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	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	Leonhard Euler	Elements of Algebra	Print: Book
	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 had read some little of Laplace when I saw you; & I continue to advance with a diminishing velocity. I turned aside into Leslie's conics - & went thro' it, in search ...	Thomas Carlyle	Sir John Leslie	Elements of Geometry, Geometrical Analysis, and Pl...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in their censures of "the metaphysical heresies" of th...	Thomas Carlyle	Dugald Stewart	Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind	Print: Book
	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 Stewart	Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind	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	Sophie Cottin	Elisabeth, ou les exiles de Siberie	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerable surprise - the bold avowall of his sentiments on ...	Thomas Carlyle	Pierre Simon Laplace	Essai philosophique sur les probabilites	Print: 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	Friedrich von Humboldt	Essai politique sur la royaume de nouvelle espagne	Print: Book

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