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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 14th of Romans, perceiving clearly for the first time how the narrowness of St Paul's business continually misleads us.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Romans)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read, this morning, pp. 15 to 18 of Broadlands book with great comfort.'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'At George Sand's "Marquise de Villemer", in evening, and enjoyed it.'	John Ruskin	George Sand	Marquise de Villemer	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Ezekiel 34th'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Ezekiel)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Genesis XXXI, noting infinite wonder and absurdity of Rachel's speech, V. 15. Same in Vulgate.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Genesis)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'And now, thinking of the mischief done to my own life and how ti many thousand thousand, by dark desire, I open my first text at I Corinthians VII. 1. And yet the second...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Corinthians)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Today I began my Plato again, properly, at page 409, after an effort failing at p. 407.'	John Ruskin	Plato	Laws	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Yesterday was a culmination of all mischief, finding I had lost (temporarily, may the Fates and Fors'es grant) Sir Walter Scott's Pen! Comforted a little by reading my o...	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	[notes]	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'In reading Horace at breakfast, planned the form in which to gather my work on him'	John Ruskin	Horace	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read this morning my entries early in 1877.'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	diary	Manuscript: Codex
	1850-1899	'Read also Cardinal Wiseman on Chartres and the Chemise - very wonderful and delightful.'	John Ruskin	Cardinal Wiseman	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'This morning I have great pleasure in reading "Deucalion" before coffee'	John Ruskin	John Ruskin	Deucalion	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Opened, after writing this - meaning to take up "Deucalion", book took up Bible instead - at Job XI. 16, and read all the rest with comfort'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Job)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Collingwood's poem, read last night, not without its meaning.'	John Ruskin	Cuthbert Collingwood	[poems]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read a bit of Ezra and referred to Haggai ii. 9: "In this place will I give peace".'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read in Machiavelli's "Florence" Cosmo de' Medici's sad saying before his death: keeping his eyes shut, his wife asking why - "To get them into the way of it."'	John Ruskin	Machiavelli	Florence	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Hosea XII. 7-9'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Examined group of Psalms, 65 to 68.'	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Psalms)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Curiously threatening verses open for me just now in the Bible. I can still read my old one without spectacles. D.G. "Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have r...	John Ruskin	[n/a]	Bible (Corinthians)	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Slept well, and read grand book - "Darkness and Dawn" at coffee time.'	John Ruskin	anon	Darkness and Dawn: the peaceful birth of a new age	Print: Book

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