Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: John Brown

 

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1600-1699'Thence home and to my office till night, reading over and consulting upon the book and Ruler that I bought this morni...Samuel Pepys John BrownThe use of the line of numbers, on a sliding (or glasiers) rule... for the measuring of timber, either round or squarePrint: Book
1600-1699'I walked back again, all the way reading of my book of Timber measure, comparing it with my new Sliding rule, brought...Samuel Pepys John BrownDescription and use of the carpenter's rulePrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over Brown's "Essays on Satire", prefixed to Pope's "Moral Poems"; in which the nature and end of Satire is ha...Thomas Green John BrownAn essay on satirePrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Brown's "Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times". The 2d Vol. is merely a supplementary comment on...Thomas Green John BrownAn estimate of the manners and principles of the timesPrint: Book

 

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