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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 Mark VIII. 33 to end again.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Mark)Print: Book
1850-1899'finally concluding in reading a French novel'John Ruskin [unknown][French novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'I was not going to open my mother's Bible to try Fors, but to read a Nativity; mechanically, looking at the Dome of the S.M., I did open it; by Fors order, at Deuteronom...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Deuteronomy)Print: Book
1850-1899'Last night I was led to read "Expectans expectavi", and to understand it for the first time.'John Ruskin [unknown]Expectans expectaviPrint: Book
1850-1899'read twelve chapters of "Mariegola"'John Ruskin [unknown]MariegolaPrint: Book
1850-1899'19th Psalm."John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Work out Chap. VI of Corinthians'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Corinthians)Print: Book
1850-1899'Eyes more weary than usual in reading a little by candlelight'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'A grey, quiet morning. I up, lively enough: open at "Propterea benedixit te Deus in aeternum" and consider if really "that's me"!'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'I've been reading my general epistle of Jude in my old Bible'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1850-1899'Matthew XXIV, 45th, of All Rulers, giving "Meat", for next "Fors".'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Matthew)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read prayer of Daniel, Chap. IX: the most important of all prayers and prophecies in Old Testament. Of some consequence, however, whether it is desolate or desolator in ...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Daniel)Print: Book
1850-1899'Terribly difficult bit of Plato'John Ruskin Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'"Frederick" reading in evening at once encouraging and dismal in the extreme.'John Ruskin Thomas CarlyleHistory of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick th...Print: Book
1850-1899'See noble passage on the greatest [Greek word], Plato, Laws, 42.'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read, fortunately, my St John's day extract, in "Ariadne", about dreams: helpful much again, now.'John Ruskin [unknown]AriadnePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the 40th Psalm, with great hope I may take it to myself, led to it by an entry of 1st January'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'I pretty well, and at Plato by 1/2 past six ... Plato, 117, of vain words &c., with the central laws read today, lovely for new Sheffield colony'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked back to Plato on weaving, Laws V, p. 151.'John Ruskin PlatoLawsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Greatly relieved in mind by resolving to stay, and reading former diary'John Ruskin John RuskindiaryManuscript: Codex


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