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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I open at, and read, the 39th of Ezekiel, and secondly, by equal chance, at the 16th psalm.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read 1st Chron. XVII and 17th Psalm.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Glad to get back to my Testament'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read 1st of Zephaniah. I must now re-read my Bible, with my new mind.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: 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
1850-1899'Read first of Zenphaniah. Leaping on threshold, what?'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Lamentations IV. Compare 2nd verse with Isaiah LXIV. 8, and note that when God is the Potter, he can make gold or clay alike ... Ecclesiasticus XXXIV. 20-24. Glorio...John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Wisdom of Solomon XV, XVI with great delight in this sunny, pure morning'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday read 1st of Wisdom of Solomon.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'read lessons and psalms for the day to her.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Verse for today Esdras - no - Maccabees I. XIII. 30.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read 15th Esdras again, and 24th Ezekiel carefully'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Compare Wisdom of Solomon, of Egyptians, Ch. XVII.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Come upon Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus II. 1-6.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Came on Ecclesiasticus XXIV, and noted references at p. 89 above, with which conf. Wisdom VII. 22 &C. and "The Wisdom which is from above is first pure" &c.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read IX of Book of Wisdom today'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Opened my father's Bible at the blessing of Aaron. Numbers VI. 26.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Wisdom of Solomon, Ch. IX: a little comforting'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
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


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