Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Isaac Watts

 

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1800-1849[Lloyd transcribed 16 lines from this 24 line Hymn onto the verso of a printed form with the title 'Duties Returned in...Edward Lloyd Isaac WattsHymn 69: Christ Appearing to His ChurchUnknown
1800-1849'What I thus learned was, I think, much enforced by the perusal of that well-known little book, Watt's "Divine and Mor...Thomas Carter Isaac WattsDivine and Moral SongsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The serious thoughts to which my illness gave rise were much strengthened by my reading at the time several of Dr Wat...Thomas Carter Isaac WattsHorae Lyricae, Poems Chiefly of the Lyric KindPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
'Robert Story [...] read his first real book, Watts' "Divine Songs for Children", with "my heart burning and with secr...Robert Story Isaac WattsDivine Songs for ChildrenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Had three pints of beer at the Harrow then came home, I afterwards read my opportioned [sic] quantity of "Watts Logic...Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read until near dinner [goes to chapel] came home, had a glass of gin and water read my quantum of "Watts Logic" smok...Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tokk a little supper and afterwards read 28 pages of "Watts Logic". Now feel weary and am on the point of retiring wi...Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Now going to bed having completed my daily reading 12 o'clock -news today of Don Carlos quitting Spain and taking ref...Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Came home about half past 10 p.m. Read my stinted quantity of "Watts".'Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read my usual quantity, and retired quite fatigued.'Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Did not read much tonight -but if all be well I intend to bring up the arears to morrow. (Sat 21 did not read my stat...Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Commenced reading at 7 p.m. and continued till half past 9. Made up for the last nights neglect and am now going to b...Joseph Jenkinson Isaac WattsLogick or the right use of reason in the enquiryPrint: 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 Isaac WattsImprovement of the MindPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over the 1st and 2d Parts of Watts' "Logic"...'Thomas Green Isaac WattsLogic, or the right use of reasonPrint: 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 Isaac WattsImprovement of the Mind, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitate...Samuel Johnson Isaac Watts[unknown]Print: Book
'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wi...Samuel Johnson Isaac Watts[Poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'Since dinner I have read much logic and enjoyed it, it is interesting to me, may, I think, with attention, do me good...Elizabeth Gurney Isaac WattsLogic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry after truthPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have been reading Watts on judgement this afternoon; it has led me into thought and particularly upon the evidence ...Elizabeth Gurney Isaac WattsLogic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry after truthPrint: Book
1700-1799'read Watts' Logic'Elizabeth Gurney Isaac WattsLogic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry after truthPrint: Book
1800-1849E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'I...Priscilla Gurney Isaac Watts[unknown]Print: Book

 

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