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

	1850-1899	'Read glacier theory and got interested in old things'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'"Friedrich".'	John Ruskin	Thomas Carlyle	History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Foster's essays.'	John Ruskin	John Foster	[essays]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Worked a little on "Romance of Rose"'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Roman de la rose [?]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his taste, and re-reading "Tancred", and writing "more ...	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley	Charles Kingsley	Hypatia	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his taste, and re-reading "Tancred", and writing "more ...	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley	Voltaire [pseud.]	Tancred	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'there is unlimited room for reading between these well-known and monotonous banks. The Prince set his mind on my reading "East Lynne", which I did at three sittings. Yes...	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley	Mrs Henry Wood	East Lynne	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Karnak which I chose for our first day has thoroughly answered... The Prince had already suggested what had already occured to me and was arranged with General Bruce, th...	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley	[n/a]	Psalms	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Glad to get back to my Testament'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I looked for this old diary and read by chance the entry on my birthday, 1873, with my father's "Apocrypha" to refer to, which I had chanced to put forward on my first s...	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'My week melting away fast, wholly in black cloud and east wind. But the verse for the 25th, in my brown book, did me much good yesterday.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	[Biblical verse]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Yesterday a good day; finding money in drawers, and liking my drawings, and getting comfort out of letters and above all out of my brown book.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	[Biblical verses]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Morning text bad - "be not high-minded": the last text in the world for me, always ashamed of myself. But texts can't be always what one needs.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	[Biblical verses]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Today, much helped by my brown book'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	[Biblical verses]	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Find invaluable passage of Voltaire on Lucifer and Liberty; article in dictionary on "Abus des mots". The Lucifer is invaluable to me, because the devil being called Luc...	John Ruskin	Voltaire [pseud.]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Drew a little, and read a French novel, and am singularly better in health.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read 1st of Zephaniah. I must now re-read my Bible, with my new mind.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Jeremiah XV. Note 18th verse.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Jeremiah)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yet I find wonderful things in Bible'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Re-read 1st of Michah carefully. The first nine verses are intelligible. Samaria, the capital, taken as representing sin of all Israel. Jerusalem, the capital, or high p...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book

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