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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799[Marginalia]: occasional marginal marks, numbers and comments throughout text, with further brief notes referring to text on 5 binding pages. Combination of ink and faded...H. Wansey Venerable BedeEcclesiastical history of the English Nation, from...Print: Book
1800-1849'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesiastical History'.Thomas Babington Macaulay MilnerEcclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quit...Benjamin Newton Bede[The Ecclesiastical History]Print: Book
1800-1849'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Hume's "History of England", and many o...James Watson Johann Lorenz von MosheimAn Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modernPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me sufficiently to induce me to read them of myself: amo...John Stuart Mill Johann Lorenz von MosheimAn Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, fro...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Claude FleuryEcclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [italics] perhaps [ed italics] 2s-6d, not more. I do so li...Margaret Emily Gaskell Arthur Penrhyn StanleyThree Introductory Lectures on the study of Eccles...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [italics] perhaps [ed italics] 2s-6d, not more. I do so li...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Arthur Penrhyn StanleyThree Introductory Lectures on the study of Eccles...Print: Book
1900-1945[following heading Sophocles of Constantinople] 'I have run through his Ecclesiastical History with amusement and without contempt [...] Bk V ch. 18 on the purity campaig...Edward Morgan Forster Socrates of ConstantinopleEcclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits rising with forks in their hands[...]') and Amiel ('...Edward Morgan Forster Bede Ecclesiastical History (Bk 5 ch 13)Print: Book
1800-1849'Curious essay of Newman's I read some pages of - about the ecclesiastical miracles; full of intellect but doubtful in tendency. I fear insidious, yet I like it.'John Ruskin John Henry NewmanEssay on the miracles recorded in Ecclesiastical H...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read a little of Bede's accounts of miracles of St Oswald, and much vexed and disgusted.'John Ruskin St BedeAn Ecclesiastical History of the English PeoplePrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 October 1768, during a visit to the Cornwall family:] ''We found them here reading Mosheim. They are in the second volume, wh...Elizabeth Talbot and Cornwall familyJohann Lorenz von Mosheim?An Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modern, fr...Print: Book


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