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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 Jeremiah I. in the morning, long since I looked in the Bible; the fresh eye and ear very useful.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'On this I open at 42nd Psalm - well - it may be so'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Jeremiah IX. Compare entry on 18th'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Chanced on Jeremiah IV. 23. The Uncreation by folly, of what had been created by wisdom'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Came on Isaiah XXI, and was puzzled with it'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Note that the Prussians have to black their helmets and take off their epaulettes to prepare for battle "with lacquer made of soot or lampblack". "Daily Telegraph". June...John Ruskin [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In "Telegraph" of 31st June [sic] is a notice of the poisonous water of the pumps of London.'John Ruskin [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I open psalter in evening at "respice de caelo et vide, et visita vineam istam".'John Ruskin [n/a]PsalterUnknown
1850-1899'Read Epistle and Gospel for first Sunday in Lent, in evening. Note end of Gospel.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "There shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water" &c. to "These make ready".'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read 61st Psalm'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'37th Psalm in evening!'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read "All they garmets smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia" out of my book on top of the highest.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: 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'The piece for yesterday was Ps. XLV. 8-12 with Isaiah XXXIII. 15-22. The piece for today Ps. XLV. 13 to end.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Amos V and by Fors! Ecclesiasticus XXXIX.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read 19th Proverbs and 10th Ecclesiasticus.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel.John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel.John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
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


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