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Adam Mackie
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Nicholson : Encyclopaedia
I have been principally engaged this day studying at an encyclopaedia by Nicholson, six octavo [volumes], a book sent by George Clark, bookseller, Aberdeen. Invoiced at six guineas.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
: Encyclopaedia Edinensis
am studying part of the Encyclopaedia Edinensis, brought by a bookman, George Anton
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
: History of Aberdeen
At home without company afternoon and evening, looking over a little of the history of Aberdeen, which I have got lately.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
C.H. Gifford : History of the French Revolution
Afternoon and evening, reading Gifford's History[of the] French Revolution. The fate of Louis xvi soffiiently points oot the instability of human greatness. In his first speach to his parliament he says 'I am resolved to retain my authority in all its plentitude[..]'See him in 1790 accepting a new constitution that abolishes nobility and all hereditary offices and distinctions. In 1792, his authority is laid aside and royalty abolished. In 1793, he is taken to a scaffold and beheaded. Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
C.H. Gifford : History of the French Revolution
Little doing this day...Have been reading at Gifford's History of the War and have followed Bonaparte into Egypt in July 1798. That summer I was at Rothie keeping Mr Hays cows and was ten years old.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
C.H. Gifford : History of the French Revolution
In my shop doing little business there, and in the intervals reading Gifford's History of the War.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
C.H. Gifford : History of the French Revolution
Have had no company this day with myself, and have gone on with my studies, tracing the courses of the French and British armies in Egypt in 1801.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
Charles Rollin : The Roman History
Afternoon reading Rollin's History
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
Charles Rollin : The Roman History
Afternoon reading Rollin, wherein instruction may be learned. Indulge not in ease. It enfeebles the body and ,although one could afford luxury, it should not be indulged. It enervates the whole mind and by imperceptible steps overcomes the whole frame.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
Charles Rollin : The Roman History
Afternoon reading Rollin's history of Antiochus Epiphanus, who persecuted the Jews.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
Charles Rollin : The Roman History
Spent the evening reading Paulus Emillius's Campaign in Macedonia and the Overthrow of Perseus, the last king thereof.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
Charles Rollin : The Roman History
At even reading from Rollin the defeat of the Romans under Crassus, 54 BC, the history of Hieron, the good king of Syracuse and the siege of Suracuse by the Romans under Marcellus, when it was reduced by them.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
Joseph Addison : Evidences of the Christian Religion
At Kirk as usual. Spent the rest of the day and evening reading Addison's Evidences of the Christian Religion
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
John Fleetwood : The Life of Jesus Christ, together with the lives
Have amused myself this evening reading the Life of Christ.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
John Fleetwood : The Life of Jesus Christ, together with the lives
At church [...] Had Dr Argo part of this evening, who was down seeing the boys head.[...] Filled up the rest of the time reading the Life of Christ, a work that suggests good ideas.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
John Fleetwood : The Life of Jesus Christ, together with the lives
Was some little time up at my Father's this afternoon. Afterwards reading Fleetwood's Life of Christ, an engaging discourse although not handled in my opinion to the same advantage it might have been.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
John Fleetwood : The Life of Jesus Christ, together with the lives
Spent the evening reading Fleetwood's Lives of the Apostles [NB part of life of Christ]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
: ' an Encyclopaedia'
Have employed this evening reading the history and theory of the gas lights from a number of the Encyclopaedia
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Serial / periodical
Thomas Boston : Human Nature in its Fourfold State
Had no company. Passed the afternoon reading part of Boston's Fourfold State.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
David Hume : History of England
have been in the shop steadily this day (which has been cold and blowing), reading in Hume's History of England- the Norman Conquest.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
David Hume : History of England
Am in shop about steady this day doing little else but reading Humes' England
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
: [Astronomy]
Reading astromomy at even. [ I suspect this is Scott's Guy Mannering, the Astrologer]
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie
Walter Scott : Guy Mannering, or the Astrologer
Was engaged this forenoon sorting some lint yarn, and all the rest of my spare time reading [Guy] Mannering
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
Walter Scott : Redgauntlet
I have been in the shop all day and during the intervals of business reading Scott's novel of Redgauntlet
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
Walter Scott : The Abbot
I continue in the shop; am occupying my spare time reading Scott's novel of the Abbot. The subject is cheifly on the manner of Queen Mary's imprisonment in the Castle of Loch Leven, with her escape from that imprisonment and from Scotland
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
Walter Scott : The Pirate
I have been engaged this day posting my shop books etc. during my spare time reading a novel- The Pirate [Scott]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
Walter Scott : Tales of My Landlord
Reading Scott's Tales of My Landlord. Consists of the prosecutions and slaughters by the Military [of] Covenanters in Charles 2nd's time. Scene of the story lies in the County of Lanark
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
Archibald Constable : Miscellany
Employed myself reading Constables Miscellany- voyages, mutinies and shipwrecks in the Southern Ocean
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
Daniel Defoe : History of the Devil or The Political History of t
'Afternoon reading some History of the Devil'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Mackie Print: Book
Daniel Defoe : The Political History of the Devil
'Spent the evening reading History of the Devil, a shallow subject.'
