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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'I read Esdras II. 8 again with comfort and shame and wonder'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Esdras)Print: Book
1800-1849'Having poured forth my soul in prayer, and having exhorted my household to live in the love and fear of the Lord, I have attained some mental relief upon entering a New ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Esther)Print: Book
1800-1849'Note Ezekiel 22.30. "I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found n...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Ezekiel)Print: Book
1850-1899'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of painters!) - I open it at 39. i. about Bp Bossuet's wo...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Ezekiel)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read first vision of Ezekiel.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Ezekiel)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Ezekiel 34th'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Ezekiel)Print: Book
1850-1899'First Sunday in new lodgings in Albyn place. Effie in bed. I read thoughtfully part of 1st Genesis, beginning a new course of Bible reading, with greater attention to th...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Genesis)Print: Book
1850-1899'I read Genesis XLVIII for beginning of "Life of Moses"'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Genesis)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
1900-1945I have just been reading a rather nice version of Genesis in Arabic. It says that Gabriel was sent to the Earth to bring a bit of clay for the making of Adam: but t...Freya Stark [n/a] [n/a]Bible (Genesis)
1800-1849'5th day last - This evening William Foster read the 5th chap of Isaiah expressing his full belief that our Joseph would experience its truth, although the weapon should ...William Foster [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1800-1849'Last evening we had more than fifty guests, some influential persons of this world, young and old, French and English - one Spaniard, two Americans. We first had the sub...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Orange dawn through clouds. Opened Bible at Isaiah XXXVII. 30.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Came on Isaiah XXI, and was puzzled with it'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Intending to read the parallel rendering of this verse in Bible psalms, I opened at Isaiah XXXIII, 17. My old Bible often does open there, but it was a happy first readi...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI 9 in Joan's Bible.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Chanced upon Isaiah 7th, 5, and read the chapter carefully'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Then read 64th Isaiah.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read 45th Isaiah. Recollect: "I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me", and conf. V. 13.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read 45th Isaiah again, which strikes hard, for I have been striving with my Maker, this last month, sullenly'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book


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