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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	'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	Abbe Raynal	Philosophical and Political History of the Settlem...	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	Dugald Stewart	Philosophical Essays	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'27th June - The last book worth mentioning, which I perused was Stewart's preliminary dissertation - for the second time. The longer I study the works of this philosoph...	Thomas Carlyle	Dugald Stewart	Philosophy of the Human Mind	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841: 'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; and now this day I have been looking into your Pippa...	Thomas Carlyle	Robert Browning	Pippa Passes	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Out of a considerable quantity of garbage which I have allowed myself, at different intervals, to devour, I have only to mention Crabbes Poems as worthy of being read. I...	Thomas Carlyle	George Crabe	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Did [Benjamin Bell] write these verses? If so, he seems young at the art like us, but not without powers of doing better; dactyls are always difficult to manage, and hi...	Thomas Carlyle	Charles Hughes Terot	Poems	Manuscript: Sheet, Poems included in letter from Jane Baillie Welsh to TC
	1800-1849	Thomas Carlyle to Alfred Tennyson, 7 December 1842: 'I have just been reading your Poems; I have read certain of them over again [goes on to praise Poems further, citi...	Thomas Carlyle	Alfred Tennyson	Poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Now the other morning Dr Irving shows me the last vol. of Constable's Miscellany, and a most magnificent passage in the Preface about this very book. Be so good as to lo...	Thomas Carlyle	George Moir	Preface to 'Constable's Miscellany' vol. 18, Schil...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The other afternoon, as I was lying dozing in a brown study after dinner, a lord's lackey knocked at the door and delivered me a little blue parcel, requiring for it a n...	Thomas Carlyle	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	private letter	Manuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	I guessed what was detaining your letter: but I scarcely dared to expect it on Saturday. It came in company with a quarter of a volume of Proofs, or I should have answer...	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Carlyle	Proofs	Print: Proofs
	1800-1849	'Even as it is, I contrive to in general to get along very reasonably. Jack comes down to me every night: we have a talk and a walk: we correct the Printer's sheets toge...	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Carlyle	Proofs of 'Schiller's Life and Writings'	Print: ProofsManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'.	Thomas Carlyle	John Milton	Prose works	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]	Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	I told you I had seen the "Quarterly Review". You would notice its contents in the newspaper. It is a long time since I ceased to be one of its admirers. The writers pos[...	Thomas Carlyle	[n/a]	Quarterly Review	Print: Serial / periodical
	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 Lafontaine	Raphael	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I [ac]cordingly wrote off to St. Andrews; and the next day, to all the four winds in quest of recommendations. To Goethe, to Irving, to Buller, to Brewster &c &c. Thes...	Thomas Carlyle	David (dr) Brewster	Recommendation	Manuscript: Letter of recommendation
	1800-1849	'Some time ago, I bought me a copy of La Rochefoucault. It has been said that the basis of his system is the supposition of selflove being the motive of all our actions. ...	Thomas Carlyle	Francois VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld	Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales	Print: 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 Buch	Reise durch Norwegen und Lappland	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Have you seen Dr Ures notice of Leslie's Meteorology, in Brande's Journal? Some one shewed it to me and it seemed a very unpalatable morsel: I know not whether you will...	Thomas Carlyle	Andrew Ure	Review of 'Description of Instruments, Designed fo...	Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
	1800-1849	'This day I was in the Advocates Library seeking German Books, and I found (directed by Dr Irving) the first Article in the Monthly Review devoted to our "German Romance"...	Thomas Carlyle	anon	Review of 'German Romance'	Print: Serial / periodical

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