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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[Italian]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Got a good deal out of Waagen, but he is an intolerable fool - good authority only in matters of tradition.'	John Ruskin	Gustav Friedrich Waagen	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read some Greek'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	[Greek]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'while in the "Artist and Amateur" I see a series of essays on beauty commenced, which seem as if they would anticipate me altogether.'	John Ruskin	E.V. Rippingille [ed.]	Artist's and Amateur's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great length.'	John Ruskin	E.V. Rippingille [ed.]	Artist's and Amateur's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great length.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Art Union	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'a little reading of Southey's "Colloquies" with which I was much pleased.'	John Ruskin	Robert Southey	Sir Thomas More; or Colloquies on the Progress and...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'find Rippingille all wrong in his "Essay on Beauty": shall have the field all open. All comfortable.'	John Ruskin	E.V. Rippingille	Artist's and Amateur's Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read a little "Faery Queene" also, but it is heavy, though with sweet lines occasionally.'	John Ruskin	Edmund Spenser	Faerie Queene, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read first number of Owen's "mammalia" in the evening.'	John Ruskin	Richard Owen	Fossil Mammalia	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'Read some Sir Joshua"	John Ruskin	Sir Joshua Reynolds	The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read some of "Clouds".'	John Ruskin	Aristophanes	Clouds, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Curious account in the "Witness" of a rock, 8 tons in weight, being carried three hundred yards over sand by ice.'	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Witness	Print: Unknown
	1800-1849	'Dull walk under cloudy sky; learned a few passages from "Clouds", as appropriate.'	John Ruskin	Aristophanes	Clouds, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'	John Ruskin	Edmund Spenser [?]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'	John Ruskin	Richard Hooker [?]	[unknown]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'read a little Sir Joshua'	John Ruskin	Sir Joshua Reynolds	The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Shower over the Breven as I returned (after sitting under a vast rock, rich with Alpine rose, reading Mr Ritchie's tract, "Catholick and Apostolick Church") and past awa...	John Ruskin	J.S. Davenport	Edward Irving and the Catholic Apostolic Church	Print: Pamphlet, tract
	1800-1849	'I have been reading Berkeley's paper, no. 55, in the "Guardian". There is this curious inconsistency in it, that setting out with deprecating any intention to turn argum...	John Ruskin	George [?] Berkeley	Guardian	Print: Serial / periodical
	1800-1849	'I read, as I was sitting at the window, during the sunset of one of the most burning and brilliant days I remember out of Italy, among several other papers, the 81st, of...	John Ruskin	[unknown]	Guardian	Print: Serial / periodical

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