Reading Experience Database Browse Author Writings Temple William

√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1900-1945	' "When all is done human life is at its greatest and best but a little froward [sic] child to be played with, and hum...	Katherine Mansfield	William Temple	Miscellanea	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Harriet Martineau, on research for a story on Bills of Exchange to be set either in Holland or South America: 'I thoug...	Harriet Martineau	Sir William Temple	[work on Holland]	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'As long as your last [letter] was, I read it over thrice in less then an hower, though to say truth I skipt some on't...	Dorothy Osborne	William Temple	[letter]	Manuscript: Letter
	1700-1799	'Read, in the evening, "Temple on the Origin of Government:" in which the source of political power is successfully tr...	Thomas Green	Sir William Temple	Essays	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were carele...	Samuel Johnson	William Temple		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Ede...	Rosamund Wallis	William Temple	[on gardens]	Print: Book