√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | 'filled with profound reverence...' 'blair vii p.375' and 'since the time that heaven began...' 'blair's ser vii p.26' | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Mary Wollstonecraft] 'told Everina that she had been reading Hugh Blair's "Letters on Rhetoric" and found them "an in... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Hugh Blair | Letters on Rhetoric | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At the same time [as undertaking studies in Italian], I went on studying Blair's Rhetoric [...] and inclining mightil... | Harriet Martineau | Hugh Blair | Rhetoric | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,... | John Cole | Hugh Blair | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.' | John Cole | Hugh Blair | A sermon on the death of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in thi... | John Cole | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Blair's sermon on the Divine Presence, with other appropriate proceedings. Evening had social prayers and read a... | John Cole | Hugh Blair | Sermon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moor... | John Cole | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields wit... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Hugh Blair | Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - ... | Thomas Carlyle | Hugh Blair | Lectures on Rhetoric | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the perusal of Blair's "Lectures on Rhetoric". The praise of ingenuity, of a judgment in general correct, a... | Thomas Green | Hugh Blair | Lectures on rhetoric and belles lettres | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1843:
'I have been reading a good deal of Dr Blair's Dissertation... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Hugh Blair | A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Hugh Blair | Sermons (5 vols) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [publisher Mr Strahan] received from Johnson on Christmas-eve, a note in which was the following paragraph:
"I h... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | [a sermon] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Dr. Blair is printing some sermons. If they are all like the first, which I have re... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | [A Sermon] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Johnson to Boswell] Please to return Dr. Blair thanks for his sermons. The Scotch write English wonderf... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson] praised Blair's sermons: "Yet", said he, (willing to let us see he was aware that fashionable fame, howeve... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Print: Book |
| | 'He [Johnson] said, "I read yesterday Dr. Blair's sermon on Devotion, from the text 'Cornelius, a devout man.' His doc... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | [Sermon on Devotion] | Print: Unknown |
| | 'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows]
"TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.
DEAR S... | James Boswell | Hugh Blair | [letter concerning Pope and Bolingbroke] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps mor... | Samuel Johnson | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Print: Book |