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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Curious essay of Newman's I read some pages of - about the ecclesiastical miracles; full of intellect but doubtful in tendency. I fear insidious, yet I like it.'John Ruskin John Henry NewmanEssay on the miracles recorded in Ecclesiastical H...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some of Coleridge's "Friend", which gives one a higher notion of him than even his poetry'John Ruskin Samuel Taylor ColeridgeFriendPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read Dumas's "Essai de Statique Chimique" - clear but too short.'John Ruskin Jean-Baptiste DumasEssai de statique chimique des étres organisésPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "King John" completely for the first time; I like the historical plays myself better than the pet ones. "Midsummer Night's Dream" I like least of any in Shakespeare...John Ruskin William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little of the life of Baxter; very interesting, and apparently deserving Coleridge's recommendation. Dreadful picture of the state of the church at that time - pl...John Ruskin W. OrmeLife and Times of Richard BaxterPrint: Book
1800-1849'Note Baxter's opinion in describing George Lawson: "the ablest man of them all, or of almost any I know in England, especially by the advantage of his age and very hard ...John Ruskin W. OrmeLife and Times of Richard BaxterPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagined Cunningham could have so little knowledge of art'John Ruskin Allan CunninghamLife of Sir David WilkiePrint: Book
1800-1849'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagined Cunningham could have so little knowledge of art'John Ruskin Allan CunninghamLives of eminent British paintersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Note in the beginning of the "Phaedrus", in the speech attributed to Lysias, the ironical introduction of our Saviour's command, to call to the feast only the poor, the ...John Ruskin PlatoPhaedrusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'John Ruskin Sir Archibald AlisonHistory of EuropePrint: 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'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'John Ruskin [unknown][chemistry]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a bit; and composed a good study for a vignette.'John Ruskin Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Ches...John Ruskin Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Ches...John Ruskin Gustav Friedrich Waagen[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Ches...John Ruskin [unknown][Italian]Print: Book
1800-1849'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'John Ruskin Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'John Ruskin Pliny[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't find it - and a little bit of Rio.'John Ruskin Alexis François RioDe la Poesie chretienne dans son principle, dans s...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'John Ruskin Gustav Friedrich Waagen[unknown]Print: Book


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