Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Robertson

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm 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 Robertsonunknown [Robertson's works?]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English ...Hugh Miller [probably William] RobertsonPrint: Book
1850-1899Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'I came upon the works of J. M...Neville Cardus J. M. RobertsonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A...Anne Lutton William RobertsonThe History of AmericaPrint: 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 William RobertsonHistory of ScotlandPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have really been so occupied with the sorrows of Mary Queen of Scots you must excuse my not have written before. I...Lady Caroline Lamb William RobertsonHistory of ScotlandPrint: 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 William RobertsonHistoriesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: ...Elizabeth Sewell William RobertsonHistory of Charles the FifthPrint: Book
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 William RobertsonThe History of AmericaPrint: Book
1700-1799'Rain again and rain forever. I read a great deal of Robertson's "History of Scotland". I cannot forgive Elizabeth's b...Eugenia Wynne William RobertsonThe History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI till his Accession to the Crown of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"...'Thomas Green William RobertsonHistory of ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished Robertson's "History of Scotland"....'Thomas Green William RobertsonHistory of Charles V.Print: Book
1700-1799'Finished the first three Books of Robertson's "America"...'Thomas Green William RobertsonHistory of AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Mary Godwin William RobertsonHistory of America
1800-1849'Sunday [...] Dec. 4th. [...] After dinner [attended by several guests] [...] Mr. Sommer came in in [...] his usual ...Claire Clairmont William RobertsonThe History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. with a View of the Progress of Society in Europe, from the Subversion of the Roman Empire, to the Beginning of the Sixteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Wiliam RobertsonHistory of AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the history of Charles 5th by Robertson'Percy Bysshe Shelley William RobertsonHistory of the Reign of Emperor Charles V, with a view of the progress of society in Europe from the subversion of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the sixteenth centuryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William RobertsonHistory of the Reign of Charles the FifthPrint: Book
1800-1849'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli...Sarah Harriet Burney William RobertsonHistory of the Reign of the Emperor Charles VPrint: Book
1800-1849'I return your Italian volumes, my dear friend, with many thanks, owning honestly, that I have never looked into them;...Sarah Harriet Burney William RobertsonHistory of the Reign of the Emperor Charles VPrint: Book
1800-1849'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volum...Jane Baillie Welsh William RobertsonCharles VPrint: 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 William RobertsonHistory of ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese...Samuel Johnson William RobertsonHistory of Scotland 1542 - 1603Print: Book
1700-1799' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese...James Boswell William RobertsonHistory of Scotland 1542 - 1603Print: Book
1700-1799'I this evening boasted, that although I did not write what is called stenography, or short-hand, in appropriated char...Samuel Johnson William RobertsonHistory of AmericaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have not finished re-reading your book, so I cannot say whether all is improved; but much is.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles Grant RobertsonKurum, Kabul and Kandahar: being a Brief Record of Impressions in Three Campaigns under General RobertsPrint: Book

 

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