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Clark

 

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Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

I know not why but too late for Church. Read 1 hour in the summerhouse, Dr Clark on the Evengelists.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile      Print: Book

  

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

Came home before 7. Dr Clark 1 hour. Bed past 10.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile      Print: Book

  

Samuel Clarke : A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God

Did not go to Church. Read Clark's Attributes morn.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile      Print: Book

  

Samuel Clarke : A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God

Lay till past 9. Read Dr Clark little. Went to King Street chapel...

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile      Print: Book

  

Samuel Clarke : A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God

Mrs Prade set me down past 9. Read Dr Clark 1/2 hour after supper. Bed 11.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile      Print: Book

  

Samuel Clarke Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

Afternoon went to the chaple. Home. Coffee. Read Clarke's 'Parraphras on the Evangellists'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile      Print: Book

  

Samuel Clarke : A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God

Afternoon read Clarke's Attributes 2 hours.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile      Print: Book

  

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

Would not go to Church. Read Dr Clark's 'paraphras'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile      Print: Book

  

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

Some of Dr Clark's paraphras.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile      Print: Book

  

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

I sat with Aunt till 7. Read Dr Clark's 'Paraphras' 1 1/2 hours.Bed near 11.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile      Print: Book

  

Samuel Clarke : A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists

Did not go to Church morn. nor afternoon. Read Dr Clark paraphras.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile      Print: Book

  

Samuel Clarke : A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God

None went to Church. Read Clark's 'Attributes' and writt.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile      Print: Book

  

Joseph Clarke : Sacred Literature

I read yesterday in Mr. Joseph Clarke?s Sacred Literature, that Nonnus is an author whom few can read, & fewer admire. So that my opinion is nothing outrageous. I do not feel well; & look like a ghost.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

Thomas Clarkson : Portraiture of Quakerism as taken from a view of the Moral Education, Descriptions, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil Oeconomy and Character of the Society of Friends

Dorothy Wordsworth describes receiving only 'two last volumes' of 'Mr Clarkson's Book': 'we may yet have to wait a fortnight or three weeks for the other [received by William Wordsworth at a separate address (Basil Montagu's)] ... We have determined not to read the Book till we can begin at the beginning, so I have done little more than turn over the leaves ... I think it is a very well-looking Book, with enough of stuff in each page, not too large margins, and a good type. As to the matter, it looks very nice, (I have heard you say that you can judge of a book in turning over the leaves) and I have read some very sweetly written bits.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

Thomas Clarkson : Portraiture of Quakerism as taken from a View of the Moral Education, Descriptions, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political and Civil OEconomy and Character of the Society of Friends.

'W[illia]m [Wordsworth] has read most of Mr Clarkson's book and has been much pleased, but he complains of the second volume being exceedingly disfigured by perpetual use of the word tract.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

Thomas Clarkson : History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, The

'We had read his [Thomas Clarkson's] book ... William [Wordsworth] I believe made a few remarks upon paper, but he had not time for much criticism, and in fact having only one perusal of the work he was too much interested.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Clark : Lives of Pirates

Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a religious turn, and what people might think dull. But they never made me dull. I read Wesley's and Watt's hymns, and religious magazines of different connexions. I had a natural inclination for the sae, and would like to get to it now. I've read a good deal about it since -Clark's 'Lives of Pirates', 'Tales of Shipwrecks', and other things in penny numbers (Clark's I got out of the library though). I was what people called a deep boy for a book; and am still. Whenever I had a penny, after I got a bellyful of victuals, it went for a book, but I haven't bought many lately. I did buy one yesterday -the 'Family Herald' -one I often read when I can get it. There's good reading in it; it elevates your mind -anybody that has a mind for studying. It has good tales in it... I've read "Windsor Castle" and "The Tower", -they're by the same man. I Liked "Windsor Castle" and all about Henry VIII and Herne and Hunter. It's a book that's connected with history, and that's a good thing. I like adventurous tales."

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers collected into volume by library?

  

Thomas Clarkson : Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'I was resolved not to write until I had read your Husband's Book, of which literally I have not even now read ten pages, from want of time to read anything.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

  

Catherine Clarkson : 

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 10 January 1817, re visit to Mrs Threlkeld (very fond of C. Clarkson) at Halifax: 'I read her your last letter adding a few words for you, which were not there, of remembrance of her and her Daughter ... I hope my little trick ... was at the least an innocent one, and I flatter myself that, in the spirit ... what I made you say was just and true - indeed if I had not felt it to be so I should have been wounded instead of pleased by the pleasure which the dear good old lady expressed in hearing that she was remembered by you.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Manuscript: Letter

  

Thomas Clarkson : letter to Mr Wakefield

Dorothy Wordsworth describing progress of electioneering in Kendal to Sara Hutchinson, 24 March 1818: 'This morning ... [William Crackenthorp] called ... just before he was setting off with [Henry] B[rougham] on his canvass [he] ran down to us in out-of-breath haste to read us a letter just received from Mr Clarkson to Mr Wakefield [refusing support to Lowthers in election] ... it was a beautiful, a delightful letter ... after he had read the letter he hurried off ... '

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Crackenthorp      

  

Thomas Clarkson : 

William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [27 March 1818]: 'I should at this moment determine to go over to Lowther tomorrow, did I not think that I may be more useful to the cause, by remaining at home for the purpose of preparing an answer to a Letter of Mr Clarkson to the Kendal Comm: of Brougham, which will appear in the Chronicle tomorrow; and which I am sure will injure your interests ... The original of the Letter I have seen, but could not procure a copy. - It was shewn me by Mr Crackenthorp [of opposing party interest] with the high-flying expression, "We reckon it as good as 50 votes!"'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Manuscript: Letter

  

Thomas Clarkson : 

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 30 March 1818: 'Mr Clarkson's letter [refusing support to Lowther interest in Westmorland elections] was published in yesterday's paper; and I have read it with delight, as an admirable letter and a faithful picture of his noble mind, but I feel assured that it will serve a cause which he would not wish to serve if he were acquainted with all its bearings.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Newspaper

  

Thomas Clarkson : sermon

Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 3 September [1820]: 'How admirable and to me astonishing the ardour and industry of your good husband - to think of writing a sermon to be read to his Family on the same evening!'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Clarkson      

  

Thomas Clarkson : History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, The

'C[oleridge] read vol. 1 [of Thomas Clarkson, History ... of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade] in proof in early Feb. 1808 ... '

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: proof

  

Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa (vol 2)

Byron to Edward Daniel Clarke, 26 June 1812: 'My dear Sir, - Will you accept my very sincere congratulations on your second volume wherein I have retraced some of my old paths adorned by you so beautifully that they give me double delight. The part which pleases me best is the preface ... '

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron      Print: Book

  

Samuel Clarke : A demonstration of the being and attributes of God

'Very much struck at the unpreachable style of Clarke on the attributes, his logical and metaphysical views, his answers to Lucretius, Hobbesand spinoza. what a difference times and place create, were I to treat my congregation with the productions of this great writer, in three Sundays I should scarce expect half a dozen hearers, not six swine to devour his pearls'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton      Print: Book

  

Samuel Clarke : A demonstration of the being attributes of God

'[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burder's Illustration of Scripture, one volume'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton      Print: Book

  

Samuel Clarke : [unknown]

'Read Clarke and Madame La Roche Jaqueline'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton      Print: Book

  

Samuel Clarke : [unknown]

'Read Vth and VIth vol. of Clarke, admired his account of pyramids, catacombs and hatching of chickens [...]His supposition [...] that the Soros in the Chamber of the Great Pyramid might contain the body of Joseph delighted me much.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton      Print: Book

  

Richard Clark : Reminiscences of Handel, His Grace the Duke of Chandos, Powells the Harpers ... The Harmonious Blacksmith, and Others. With a List of the Anthems Composed at Commons, by Handel, for the Duke of Chandos. And an Appendix [containing wills]

H. J. Jackson discusses Richard Clark's annotations to Isabella Spence, How to be Rid of a Wife (1823), and his own pamphlet, Reminiscences of Handel (1836).

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Clark      

  

Clarke : Travels

Mary Berry, Journal, Sunday 14 October 1810, on stay in Greathead household at Guy's Cliff: '[After church attendance] The blind Miss Williams played much of Handel's music, and afterwards Greathead read Clarke's travels to us.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Greathead      Print: Book

  

Clarke : Lake of Tiberias

'During our readings at our lodgings, Dr Clarke's Lake of Riberias formed an interesting portion. King's Hymns too were our companion.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Book

  

Dr Clark : [unknown]

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'England'; [text] 'The late excellent Dr Clark thus apostrophizes his/ native country in the last volume of his travels & few/ men have seen more of the world'. 'Oh England! decent abode of comfort and /cleanliness, & decorum! Oh blessed assylum of all/ that is worth having upon earth ? Where'er I roam, whatever realms I see/ My heart, untravelled, fondly turns to thee' [total =15 lines of extract with 3 lines of introduction. The final two lines are from 'The traveller' by Oliver Goldsmith. It is uinclear whether they are in Clark's text or are added]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine      Print: Unknown

  

Thomas Clarkson : History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade

'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police & Institutions of the British Empire, by Capt. Pasley of the Engineers, a book which I protested against at first, but which upon trial I find delightfully written & highly entertaining. I am as much in love with the Author as I ever was with Clarkson or Buchanan, or even the two Mr Smiths of the city. The first soldier I ever sighed for; but he does write with extraordinary force & spirit.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Book

  

Lewis & Clarke : Travels up the Missouri

"Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scott's 'Lord of the Isles,' Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri (of which a most delectable account in the Quarterly), Joanne Southcott, &c &c".

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa

'Read Pliny - transcribe - read Clarke's travels - Shelley writes and reads Apuleius and Spencer in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa

'read Pliny and Clarkes travels - Shelley writes his poem [The Revolt of Islam] - reads Hist. of Fr. Rev. and Spencer aloud in the evening'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa

'Read Tacitus - Clarkes travels - transcribe for S. - S writes - reads several of the plays of Aeschylus and Spencer aloud in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa

'Read 2nd book of the Aeneid - read Dr Clarke's travels'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Edward Daniel Clarke : Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa

'Read part of the 7th book of Virgil - walk - finish the 3rd vol of Clarke'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Clarke : Travels

[Mary's second reading list for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so database entries are based on those references. An x denotes Percy Shelley having read the text too] 'M Clarke's Travels Hume's dissertation on the passions Tristram Shandy - Sentimental Journey Letters & c 2 vols of Montaigne Schlegel on the drama Oeuvres de Moliere Aristippes de Wieland French trans. of Lucian Mille et une nuits Tragedies de Voltaire Trajedies de Corneille x Gibbons Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire x Voyages du jeune Anacharsis Ben Jonson's Comedies Pope's Homer Joseph Andrews - Gil Blas - x Corinne Faublas Italian Pamela x Aminta of Tasso Monti's Tragedies x Orlando Furioso Giurusalemme [sic] Liberata tragedies of Alfieri x Inferno of Dante Vita di Alfieri Latin x The Aenied [sic] Terence's Comedies 2 books of Horace 10 books of Livy'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

Kenneth Clark : unknown

'I've been walking on the marsh and found a swan sitting in a Saxon grave. This made me think of you. Then I came back and read about Leonardo - Kenneth Clark - good I think: this also made me think of you.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      

  

Samuel Clarke : [Sermons]

'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for style. I took an opportunity to-day of mentioning several to him. "Atterbury?" Johnson. "Yes, Sir, one of the best". Boswell. "Tillotson?". Johnson. "Why, not now. I should not advise a preacher at this day to imitate Tillotson's style: though I don't know; I should be cautious of objecting to what has been applauded by so many suffrages. — South is one of the best, if you except his peculiarities, and his violence, and sometimes coarseness of language. — Seed has a very fine style; but he is not very theological. — Jortin's sermons are very elegant. — Sherlock's style too is very elegant, though he has not made it his principal study. — And you may add Smallridge. All the latter preachers have a good style. Indeed, nobody now talks much of style: everybody composes pretty well. There are no such inharmonious periods as there were a hundred years ago. I should recommend Dr. Clarke's sermons, were he orthodox. However, it is very well known where he is not orthodox, which was upon the doctrine of the Trinity, as to which he is a condemned heretic: so one is aware of it." Boswell. "I like Ogden's "Sermons on Prayer" very much, both for neatness of style and subtilty of reasoning. "Johnson. "I should like to read all that Ogden has written." Boswell. "What I wish to know is, what sermons afford the best specimen of English pulpit eloquence." Johnson. "We have no sermons addressed to the passions, that are good for anything; if you mean that kind of eloquence".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

  

Samuel Clarke : The Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons

'May 11. I read the lives of some moderne divines, and I was ashamed to find how short I came of such examples for zeale, and diligence. In Mr Stockton's life, whom I knew, I found that being soberly brought up he found not that change, which others, who were wicked, found at their conversion . . . '

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Archer      Print: Book

  

Thomas Clarkson : History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade

'[letter to Dr S.] I have just finished the perusal of a publication which plainly shows what may be accomplished by the persevering exertions of a righteous zeal. I allude to Clarkson's "History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade", which I think one of the most interesting books I have ever read'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

  

Samuel Clarke : Sermons

'He pressed me to study Dr. Clarke and to read his Sermons. I asked him why he pressed Dr. Clarke, an Arian. "Because, (said he) he is fullest on the propitiatory sacrifice."'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

  

Marcus Clarke : The Jolly Beggars

'In the Evening went again to the Club, found no one there but Marcus Clarke & Shillingham. Had a chat with them. Marcus read a portion of a comic Opera he was writing to be called "The Jolly beggars". It was very funny but I should think better adapted for the pages of Punch than for the Stage'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Marcus Clarke      Manuscript: Unknown

  

Isabel Constance Clarke : Haworth Parsonage

'I am reading "Haworth Parsonage" by Isabel C. Clarke. I have never read a book on the Brontes before, although I have often passed Cowan Bridge, the notorious school, which caused the deaths of Maria and Elizabeth.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

  

Max Adeler pseud. i.e Charles Heber Clark : Out of the Hurly Burly: or Life in an Odd Corner

'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for light reading, de Maupassant, Flaubert, Galsworthy, Cunninghame Graham, various periodicals, and a book, which has always been a mystery to me, "Out of the Hurly Burly" by Max Adler. In the window stood an arm chair of cherry wood, lacquered black, on which my father often sat to read for half an hour or so before "turning in".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

 

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