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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Read geology'John Ruskin [unknown][geology]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read to children under tree.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'On this I open at 42nd Psalm - well - it may be so'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Jeremiah IX. Compare entry on 18th'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Chanced on Jeremiah IV. 23. The Uncreation by folly, of what had been created by wisdom'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Came on Isaiah XXI, and was puzzled with it'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Note that the Prussians have to black their helmets and take off their epaulettes to prepare for battle "with lacquer made of soot or lampblack". "Daily Telegraph". June...John Ruskin [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read "Anne Babi".'John Ruskin Jeremias GotthelfAnne BabiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Take Wordsworth's lines, page 189, of Saturn and his system, for type of his wide, thoughtful, as opposed to Tennyson's acute and passionate wisdom. (Examine passage I, ...John Ruskin William WordsworthThe ExcursionPrint: Book
1850-1899'In "Telegraph" of 31st June [sic] is a notice of the poisonous water of the pumps of London.'John Ruskin [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read "Anne Babi" to my mother in evening'John Ruskin Jeremias GotthelfAnne BabiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mama up again, read nice bits of "Anne Babi" to her after dinner'John Ruskin Jeremias GotthelfAnne BabiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Today began Plato's "Laws" again at breakfast and felt a little brighter.'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read an account of Dorothea Trudel's mother to my mother.'John Ruskin anonDorothea TrudelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Livy's account of Evander again I. 7. Remember "auctoritate magis quam imperio" and his mother Carmenta.'John Ruskin LivyHistory of RomePrint: Book
1850-1899'Pleasant evening reading about Pultowa and Mazeppa to my mother.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read "Bleak House" in evening'John Ruskin Charles DickensBleak HousePrint: Book
1850-1899'I open psalter in evening at "respice de caelo et vide, et visita vineam istam".'John Ruskin [n/a]PsalterUnknown
1850-1899'Finished "Henry the Fourth", 1st part.'John Ruskin William ShakespeareHenry IV Part IPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Lady of Glynne" in evening.'John Ruskin Julia Cecilia StrettonLady of GlynnePrint: Book


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