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William Richard Grahame

 

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Joseph Bouchette : The British Dominions in North America

'I read in Bourchette's "British Provinces Now" in North America of the meteorlogical state of the two Canadas in the year 1820, monthly and yearly.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Book

  

David Thompson : History of the Late War Between Great Britain and

'I have been reading Thompson's "History of the Late War in Britain"; Decrees Blockades.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Book

  

n/a : New Testament

'I did not go to Church but read the New Testament.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Book

  

 : Bible

'Sunday I dined with Captain Castle and did not go to Church but read the Bible at home.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Book

  

n/a : Bible

'I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Book

  

n/a : Bible

'Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Book

  

Alexander Pope : [unknown]

'Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Book

  

Alexander Pope : [unknown]

'Yesterday... reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Book

  

n/a : [Newspaper]

Yesterday... reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Newspaper

  

n/a : Dublin Evening Post

'In Ireland from an extract from the Dublin Evening Post that I read yesterday, it appears, as far as I can remember, that the disease had killed upwards of 3,000 people ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Newspaper

  

William Dunlop : 'The Backwoodsman' or Statistical Sketches of Uppe

'I dined with Captain Castle yesterday; who lent me the Backwoodsman by Dunlop; which I have read through. After doing so [...] I am more than ever pleased with this country.' [Buys a copy of this text on Monday 10 Dec 1832].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Newspaper

  

n/a : The Morning Chronicle

'I drove into town ... with Miss Greaves and read the English papers which came [by ship]. Oh! the injustice shown the Irish by the House of Lords ... Oh! the injustice ... of the English press; not only the "Courier" but "The Morning Chronicle" too...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Newspaper

  

James Granger : A Biographical History of England ... Adapted to a

'Mr Dunn has Grainger's "Biographical History of England". A medallion of Cromwell is mentioned having Oliver's head engraved on one side, and on the reverse ... his head in Britannia's lap, his backside bare ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Book

  

James Granger : A Biographical History of England ... Adapted to a

'All day I have been arranging prints for Grainger's Biography. There is a good story of Jerry White, Cromwell's Chaplain.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Book

  

James Granger : A Biographical History of England ... Adapted to a

'Continuing the arrangement of Plates for Grainger and have met with several anecdotes worth noting [on Elizabeth I, CharlesII, Nell Gwynne, and Arabella Churchill].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Book

  

n/a : National Gazette (Philadelphia)

'there is no news of the New York ship in yesterday's National Gazette of Philadelphia'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Newspaper

  

n/a : ['The English Papers']

'I went to town with Miss Greaves and read the English papers to the 16 August, which had just arrived...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Newspaper

  

n/a : The Monthly Review

'I went to town with Miss Greaves and read the English papers to the 16 August, which had just arrived. I read Sir Jonah Barrington in the Monthly Review.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Serial / periodical

  

n/a : ['the papers']

'At the Athenaeum I read the papers and ... Advice to a Young Man and Padre.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Newspaper

  

Samuel Butler : Hudibras

'I came home and read Hudibras and William Byrd ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Richard Grahame      Print: Book

 

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