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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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'Opened 3rd of Tobit'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Tobit)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read 1st Chron. XVII and 17th Psalm.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Going to bed, I take up the Inn-table New Testament. It opens at "A little while and ye shall not see me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to ...John Ruskin [n/a]New TestamentPrint: 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'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]Fortnightly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read the "Sir, come down ere my child die".'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (John)Print: Book
1850-1899'Advertisement on Rocks of Hudson: "Use Binninger's Old London Dock Gin".'John Ruskin [n/a][advertisement]Print: Advertisement
1850-1899'Read in Luke XXII, the last supper'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Luke)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'Karnak which I chose for our first day has thoroughly answered... The Prince had already suggested what had already occured to me and was arranged with General Bruce, th...Arthur Penrhyn Stanley [n/a]PsalmsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Glad to get back to my Testament'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'My week melting away fast, wholly in black cloud and east wind. But the verse for the 25th, in my brown book, did me much good yesterday.'John Ruskin [n/a][Biblical verse]Unknown
1850-1899'Yesterday a good day; finding money in drawers, and liking my drawings, and getting comfort out of letters and above all out of my brown book.'John Ruskin [n/a][Biblical verses]Unknown
1850-1899'Morning text bad - "be not high-minded": the last text in the world for me, always ashamed of myself. But texts can't be always what one needs.'John Ruskin [n/a][Biblical verses]Unknown
1850-1899'Today, much helped by my brown book'John Ruskin [n/a][Biblical verses]Unknown
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'Read Jeremiah XV. Note 18th verse.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: 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


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