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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 again the lines p. 45 of last diary (Palmero book)'John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Today the morning psalms very good for me. 1st Collect. p. 83. Lincoln Psalter.'John Ruskin [n/a]PsalterManuscript: Codex, editor's note: an illuminated manuscript belonging to Ruskin
1850-1899'Read, by chance, looking for Botany, the entry of 12th June last year - the trials of the just and scourges of the Sinner! I seem to catch both, just now.'John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'For National debt read "Munera" page 32. Read the first statement of the principles of currency, "Munera" Chap. III 66-80.'John Ruskin [unknown]MuneraPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Smith's "Wealth of Nations" in evening: the most naive assumption of Nature that ever was'John Ruskin Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealt...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read IX of Book of Wisdom today'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'At "Rip Van Winkle" in evening, and much enjoyed it'John Ruskin Washington IrvingRip Van WinklePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Genesis XLVIII for beginning of "Life of Moses"'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Genesis)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read part of Abbot Samson in evening. The pilgrimage to Rome!'John Ruskin Thomas CarlylePast and PresentPrint: Book
1850-1899'In afternoon, the trance-teaching, and the reading of "Marmion" with companions...'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sound sleep after walk and long reading of "Old Mortality".'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday a very happy Sunday, drawing a snailshell and with sweet evening home service and music, and reading Carlyle's "Teutsch Ritter".'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1850-1899'Opened my father's Bible at the blessing of Aaron. Numbers VI. 26.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Miss Blackwell's "Spiritism" horrible, like waking nightmare, read before going to bed.'John Ruskin Allan Kardec [pseud.]Experimental SpritismPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Wisdom of Solomon, Ch. IX: a little comforting'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Also the book of Numbers is woeful reading'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Numbers)Print: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday all day at Lombardic Psalter. My book continually opening at p.98 rebukes me for being faint-hearted.'John Ruskin [n/a]PsalterManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Recovered from fit of quite cowardly despair by Habakkuk III. 16 to end; that chapter and most such are incomparably grander in English than Greek'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read my Aosta letter and 104th Psalm in Vulgate - the geology of it quite perfect'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read, in the Hotel French Testament, Mark VIII. 33 to end'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Mark)Print: Book


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