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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'I have just read Mr. Nevile Foster?s first article on The Universal Machine, which is chiefly a criticism of some of my articles.' Arnold Bennett Nevile FosterThe Universal MachinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'At home all day a-writing. In the even read "The Universal Magazine" for December; think the following observations worth notice: [lists several observations from the ma...Thomas Turner The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and PleasurePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In perusing an abridgment of the "Life of Madame de Maintenon" in "The Universal Magazine" for March, I find the following, being the advice given her by her mother Mada...Thomas Turner The Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasurePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Read part of "The Universal Magazine" for June wherein I find the following receipt recommended (in an extract from Dr Lind's essay on the most effectual means of preser...Thomas Turner The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and PleasurePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In the day read part of "The Universal Magazine" for December, and in the evening read a pamphlet entitled "Primitive Christianity propounded or an Essay To revive the A...Thomas Turner The Universal Magazine of knowledge and pleasurePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'We dined on the remains of Wednesday and yesterday's dinners with the addition of a cheap kind of soup, the receipt for making of which I took out of "The Universal Maga...Thomas Turner The Universal Magazine of knowledge and pleasurePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Read the 'Universal Passion'Gertrude Savile Edward YoungThe Universal PassionPrint: Book
1700-1799Made an end of 'The Unniversall Passion'... 'Tis exceeding seveer, 'tis all satir[e] but mighty pretty and too just. He is grown a favouritt Author of mine. I am not cont...Gertrude Savile Edward YoungThe Universal PassionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of grammar neither myself nor my schoolfellows were taught aything, except to repeat by rote the brief grammatical exercises contained in the "Universal Spelling Book", ...Thomas Carter Daniel FenningThe Universal Spelling BookPrint: Book
1800-1849'a circumstance occurd which nearly stopd me from writing even for my own amusement borrowing a school book of a companion, having some entertaining things in it both i...John Clare Daniel FenningThe universal spelling-book: or, a new and easy gu...Print: Book
1700-1799'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to him; but I am confident, from internal evidence, that ...James Boswell [n/a]The Universal VisitorPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, 27. III. 1939
S. A. Reynolds in the chair.

[...]

2. Minutes of last read + approved.

3. A. B. D...		Bruce Dilks James JeansThe Universe Around UsPrint: Book
1850-1899'My father has been quite sewed up for some days back, by Clifford’s article: (a fine article it was too);[…].'Robert Louis Stevenson William Kingdom CliffordThe Unseen Universe or Physical Speculations on a ...Print: Serial / periodical, Review article. Probably read in print after publication, but possibly in another earlier form since RLS was acquainted with its author.
1900-1945Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 4th September 1943 F. E. Pollard in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
[...]
Edith B. Smith Dorothy L. SayersThe Unsolved Puzzle of the Man with No FacePrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 7th August ?The Untilled Field? ? (George Moore)'. Gerald Moore George MooreThe Untilled FieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'This week I have been reading a most remarkable book which has created a great impression. it is "The Upton Letters", a series of letters from a school master at "Upto...Clive Staples Lewis Arthur Christopher BensonThe Upton LettersPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence home and to my office till night, reading over and consulting upon the book and Ruler that I bought this morning of Browne concerning the Lyne of Numbers, in whic...Samuel Pepys John BrownThe use of the line of numbers, on a sliding (or g...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge James FosterThe Usefulness, Truth, and Excellency of the Chris...Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'The usuall Prayer of Docter Martyn Luther'.Elizabeth Lyttelton John FoxeThe usuall Prayer of Docter Martyn LutherPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 25 May, 1797: 'This New Forest is very lovely. I should like to have a house in it — & dispeople the rest like William the Co...Robert Southey John GisborneThe Vales of Wever, a Loco-Descriptive Poem Print: Book


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