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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'The first review of "Seeds in the Wind" came along today - "The Glasgow Evening News" - Power may have done it. Overpraised - but some truth too in it: certainly a good ...William Soutar [n/a]Glasgow Evening NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Such a moment I experienced last night when I read Murray's article in "New Britain" on "Shakespeare and Socialism" - I felt as if in my sonnet, "To Marx", I had put Mur...William Soutar [n/a]New BritainPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Restoration of Israel. Note 31st and 32nd Jeremiah: clear, unmistakeable, beautiful.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been abstracting the Book of Revelations. I was especially struck with the general appellation of the System of the world as the Mystery of God, in Chap. X. 7, co...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Revelations)Print: Book
1800-1849'I never noticed the 45th of Jeremiah till today - it is singularly appicable to all ambitious dreaming at this time. Consider also the beautiful 17th verse of the 46th c...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1800-1849'Note the following passages respecting Edom. Genes. xxxvi. Num. xx, 14, xxi, 4, xxiv, 18, xxxiii, 7. Judges v, 4. Deut. ii, 4, 8, 12. 2 Sam. viii, 14. 1 Kings xi, 15, xx...John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: 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
1800-1849'In the reading of the psalms this morning, I was struck by the 5th and 6th verses of V, where the abhorrence or contrariety of God to evil is expressed as regards his th...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the 8th of Jerem this morning. Note the 7th verse very beautiful, comparing Isaiah i. 3. The ninth verse too important.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1800-1849'I was struck today by the "minding himself to go afoot" in Acts xx. 13. It is interesting to see the Apostle, after labouring and preaching all night, seek this retireme...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Acts)Print: Book
1850-1899'As I opened the Bible today I was peculiarly struck with the well known, never enough known, passage, Prov. II. 3, 4: "If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for h...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Proverbs)Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Note in Psalm 27th, David's claim to spend all his life in the "house of the Lord" v.4 and following expressions about his tabernacle.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Unknown
1850-1899'The more I read the psalms, the more it seems to me that Heathen, in such passages as Ps. XLVI. 6, 10, XLIII. 14, II. 1, etc, while in David's mouth indeed meant the Gen...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Unknown
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'Confused about the various phrases: The Man, Gen. III. 24. Adam, and Ish, Isha, II. 23. What is the meaning of Abel?'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Note today in Bible reading the charge to Abraham, "Walk before me, and be thou perfect". It means "sincere" in marginal reading.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'It is curious that the first book I took up here, after my new testament, was the "Christian Year", and it opened at a poem for the 20th Sunday after Trinity, which I ha...John Ruskin [n/a]Christian YearPrint: Book
1850-1899'Orange dawn through clouds. Opened Bible at Isaiah XXXVII. 30.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'See in "Morning Post" of October 4th, 61, page 3, 3rd column, last article, results of Christianity and "Mr Close of Cheltenham".'John Ruskin [n/a]Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Observe accident in "Times" of June 17th, caused by caterpillar, Bombyx processionea of Reaumur.'John Ruskin [n/a]The TimesPrint: Book


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