| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | David Hume | [Hume's Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | David Hume | [Essays and Treatises] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays ... | Mark Tellar | Fergus Hume | The Mystery of the Hansom Cab | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | But too much of one thing - as it is in the adage. Therefore I reserve the account of Hume's essays till another oppo... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 2 vols | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | David Hume | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | David Hume | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | have been in the shop steadily this day (which has been cold and blowing), reading in Hume's History of England- the N... | Adam Mackie | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Am in shop about steady this day doing little else but reading Humes' England | Adam Mackie | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I know that Historians are very subject to give us their own views, instead of Facts. Hume is very partial to Royalty... | Robert Sharp | David Hume | The History of England from the Invasion | 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 Ro... | James Watson | David Hume | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider... | Samuel Bamford | David Hume | Decline and fall of the Roman empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad you ha[ve] attacked Hume. Your remarks are just as far as I can determine'. | John A. Carlyle | Hume | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's hus... | Lady Caroline Lamb | David Hume | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | David Hume | The History of England (presumably) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays... | Thomas Carter | David Hume | [Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | David Hume | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am highly indebted to you for Hume. I like his essays better than any thing I have read these many days. He has pre... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | Essays Moral, Political and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The best book I have read, since I wrote you, is Hume's "Essays, political and literary". It is indeed a most ingenio... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | Essays Moral, Political and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | The History of England during the reigns of James I and Charles I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part ... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | The History of England During the Reigns of James I and Charles I | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry Oct 14 1791 'This temporary triumph of irreligion and false philosophy will tear the mark off th... | Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] | David Hume | Essay concerning human understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [David] Hume | Dialogue on natural religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Poli... | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.' | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st part of Humes Essays' | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hume' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | Essays and treatises on several subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Humes dissertation on the passions' | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Four Dissertations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in t... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's Engla... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | Histoiry of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | David Hume | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The conversation now turned upon Mr. David Hume's style. Johnson. "Why, Sir, his style is not English; the structure ... | Samuel Johnson | David Hume | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Trut... | Samuel Johnson | David Hume | Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Trut... | James Boswell | David Hume | Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y... | Samuel Johnson | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged]
'These friends not only debated on... | The Apostles | David Hume | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] Without doubt you have read what is called "The Life of David Hume", written by him... | James Boswell | David Hume | My Own Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have now one great satisfaction, which is reading Hume's "History". It entertains and instructs me. It elevates my ... | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions' | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I employed the day in reading Hume's "History", which enlarged my views, filled me with great ideas, and rendered me ... | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817):
'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reason... | George Grote | David Hume | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 13 March 1819:
'Rose at 1/2 past 7, after a... | George Grote | David Hume | Essay on the Academical Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Such a shocked surprise came to me the pther day on opening T.F. Henderson's book on "Scottish Vernacular Literature"... | William Soutar | Alexander Hume | The Day Estivall | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:
'Our after-supper book is Hume -- his English history however... | Catherine Talbot and family | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |