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Charles Manby Smith
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William Cobbett : A French Grammar, Or plain Instructions for the Le
Upon on of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which display their leafy banners along the quays of the seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a Franc and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque, and to these materials I applied doggedly from six in the morningtill dinner time. I read the grammer through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards ...
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book
Tom Paine : Age of Reason
'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the books with which the shelves were stored. The "Age of Reason" was among the first; and, in order that both sides of the question might be fairly presented to my mind, was immediately followed by Bishop Watson's "Apology for the Bible". I should have read neither. What mischief the infidel writer effected the Bishop failed to repair.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book
Bishop Watson : Apology for the bible
'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the books with which the shelves were stored. The "Age of Reason" was among the first; and, in order that both sides of the question might be fairly presented to my mind, was immediately followed by Bishop Watson's "Apology for the Bible". I should have read neither. What mischief the infidel writer effected the Bishop failed to repair.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book
[n/a] : Bible
'I rose with a heavy heart on the Sunday morning, and read mechanically a chapter in the little Bible in which my mother had blotted my name upon the title page: but my thoughts were far away, and I knew not what I had read.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book
William Cobbett : [French Grammar]
'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a franc, and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque; and to these materials I applied dogedly from six in the morning til dinnertime. I read the Grammar through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards... By these means ... I made rapid progress.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book
[unknown] : [French pocket dictionary]
'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a franc, and a pocket dictionnary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque; and to these materials I applied dogedly from six in the morning til dinnertime. I read the Grammar through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards... By these means ... I made rapid progress.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book
[n/a] : Testament
'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a franc, and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque; and to these materials I applied dogedly from six in the morning til dinnertime. I read the Grammar through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards... By these means ... I made rapid progress.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book
[n/a] : Telemaque
'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a franc, and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque; and to these materials I applied dogedly from six in the morning til dinnertime. I read the Grammar through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards... By these means ... I made rapid progress.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Newspaper
[n/a] : [newspaper advertisements]
'In the course of a fortnight I could manage, with the help of a dictionary, to read the advertisements in the French newspapers, which I now began to peruse, not without a hope of finding employment of some other kind, in case the printing should fail.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
[n/a] : Moniteur
'One day, [after] an hour's study, I managed to get all the meaning of an advertisement in the Moniteur...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
Dr D of Prospect Villa : [letter]
"'ne morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking at the door, ... flung a paid letter on the path. Patty picked it up - it was directed to my father, and my mother opened it... My mother put a half-sheet into my hand from Dr D of Prospect Villa, ... "There", said she, "is something which I hope will prevent your going to Caudon - read it". The note was an acknowledgement...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Manuscript: Letter
[unknown] : [unknown]
[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'Sometimes I played dices with madam - sometimes I read aloud from some work of history of philosophy selected by the Doctor.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book
Dr D : [manuscript of his book]
[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'By the middle of March 1831, I had completed the first volume, amounting to above four hundred pages, of the Doctor's book. So far as I was capable of finding, it was an admirable work, profound in thought, simple in style, and full of matter, though somewhat disfigured by virulent remarks upon Methodism and Dissent in all forms.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Manuscript: manuscript of book
[n/a] : The Times
'"The Times" newspaper was taken in daily, and it was the office of each compositor in town to read the debates and leaders aloud for the benefit of the rest. When it came to my turn, they could never understand my "professional" mode of reading, and made me many humble requests for explanation.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Newspaper
[unknown] : [various titles]
'... at the end of my fourth year I drew a small weekly salary one half of which my father allowed me for my own use... I bought books, and read as much as possible, and reflected upon what I read while engaged in my daily avocations.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book
[unknown] : [various]
[Smith joins a reading group of seven with a view to self-improvement] 'We got a good room, with such attendance as we required, at the sum above named; and thus, for sixpence a week each, with an additional three-halfpence in winter time for firing, we had an imperfect, it is true, but still an efficient means of improvement at our command. Here we met nearly three hundred nights in the year, and talked, read, disputed and wrote "de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis" until the clock struck eleven.'
