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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 a good deal from C Age - also some chapters in the Book of Cronicles [sic] ...'James Bennetts Williams [n/a] [n/a]Bible (Chronicles)Print: Book
1800-1849'We spent a cheerful, sober evening, until a general family Reading, when several joined our interesting party. We read the principal parts of the Epistle to the Colossia...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Colossians)Print: Book
1800-1849'Our wedding day twenty nine years since we married! My texts for the morning are applicable: "Our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more ex...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Corinthians)Print: Book
1850-1899'Work out Chap. VI of Corinthians'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Corinthians)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
1850-1899Curiously 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'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
1800-1849'Upon reading the 2nd Chap. in Deuteronomy I felt this verse so much the acknowledgement of my heart, though all the works of my hands, may not yet have appeared to be fu...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Deuteronomy)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'Read today the lovely 4-6 verses of Deuteronomy XXX.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Deuteronomy)Print: Book
1800-1849'These words in Eccles. struck me much. Ch. II v 21 & 22: "Marvel not at the works of sinners, but trust in the Lord and abide in thy labour, for it is one easy thing in ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Ecclesiastes)Print: Book
1850-1899'Opened at Ecclesiasticus L. 17, reading on to 18, and, by chance, 8'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Ecclesiastes)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read 27th Ecclesiasticus. Note V. 1, 2, 14, 15, 23, 24.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Ecclesiastes)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Ecclesiasticus XXVI - how lovely.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Ecclesiastes)Print: Book
1800-1849Extract of letter from Lady Mackintosh to E. Fry: 'I have had a note from Sir James - "I dined Saturday, June 3rd, at Devonshire House. The company consisted of the Duke ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Ephesians)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read, by chance, Esdras II, VI, and read on to VIII. 48, 54.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Esdras)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read II Esdras I to the marvellous clause of minor prophets.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Esdras)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read II Esdras XIV to XV.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Esdras)Print: Book
1850-1899'And the last verse I read, of my morning's reading, is Esdras II. XV. XVIII.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Esdras)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Esdras)Print: Book


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