The Annual Register

Reading experience

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Evidence

Source

Text being read

EuRED : text status

EuRED : text form

EuRED : text provenance

Reader(s) and listener(s)

Reader

Details of the reading experience

Date of Reading Experience

Time of Reading Experience

EuRED : experience type

EuRED : experience frequency

Place of reading experience

EuRED : emotions

EuRED : intensity

EuRED : environment

EuRED : lighting

EuRED : testimony

EuRED : reliability

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Autobiography
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                <forename>John Stuart</forename>
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            <title>Autobiography</title>
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              <publisher>Jack Stillinger</publisher>
              <pubPlace>Boston</pubPlace>
              <date>1969</date>
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            <forename>Daniel</forename>
            <surname>Allington</surname>
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          <email>isabeldivanna@aol.com</email>
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        <date from="1810-01-01" to="1813-12-31" cert="unknown">Jan 1 1810 - Dec 31 1813</date>
        <time>in the morning (Summarising and discussion 'before breakfast' (see above); solitary reading therefore at other times of day.), during daytime</time>
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            <forename>John Stuart</forename>
            <surname>Mill</surname>
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          <birth>1806-05-20</birth>
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        <ptr target="ukred-8925">"Much of it [ie. "the daily instruction I received"] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father"s discourses to me, chiefly during our walks. From 1810 to the end of 1813 we were living in Newington Green, then an almost rustic neighbourhood. My father"s health required considerable and constant exercise, and he walked habitually before breakfast, generally in the green lanes towards Hornsey. In these walks I always accompanied him, and with my earliest recollections of green fields and wild flowers, is mingled that of the account I gave him daily of what I had read the day before. To the best of my remembrance, this was a voluntary rather than a prescribed exercise. I made notes on slips of paper while reading, and from these, in the morning walks, I told the story to him; for the books were chiefly histories, of which I read in this manner a great number: Robertson?s histories, Hume, Gibbon; but my greatest delight, then and for long afterwards, was Watson"s Philip the Second and Third. The heroic defence of the Knights of Malta against the Turks, and of the revolted provinces of the Netherlands against Spain, excited in me an intense and lasting interest. Next to Watson, my favourite historical reading was Hooke"s History of Rome. Of Greece I had seen at that time no regular history, except school abridgments and the last two or three volumes of a translation of Rollin"s Ancient History, beginning with Philip of Macedon. But I read with great delight Langhorne"s translation of Plutarch. In English history, beyond the time at which Hume leaves off, I remember reading Burnett"s History of his Own Time, though I cared little for anything in it except the wars and battles; and the historical part of the Annual Register, from the beginning to about 1788, where the volumes my father borrowed for me from Mr Bentham left off. In these frequent talks about the books I read, he used, as opportunity offered, to give me explanations and ideas respecting civilization, government, morality, mental cultivation, which he required me afterwards to restate to him in my own words."</ptr>
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