The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 6George Allen, 1873 |
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... honest declaration and fulfilment of his belief in life , -with the so - called Infidel , I desired to plead for an honest declaration and fulfilment of his belief in death . The dilemma is inevitable . Men must either hereafter live ...
... honest declaration and fulfilment of his belief in life , -with the so - called Infidel , I desired to plead for an honest declaration and fulfilment of his belief in death . The dilemma is inevitable . Men must either hereafter live ...
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... honest men , runs through the very heart and innermost nature of men of all ranks and in all positions . There is a working class - strong and happy , -among both rich and poor ; there is an idle class - weak , wicked , and miserable ...
... honest men , runs through the very heart and innermost nature of men of all ranks and in all positions . There is a working class - strong and happy , -among both rich and poor ; there is an idle class - weak , wicked , and miserable ...
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... honest men's consent abolished . Men will be taught that an existence of play , sustained by the blood of other creatures , is a good existence for gnats and jelly - fish ; but not for men that neither days , nor lives , can be made ...
... honest men's consent abolished . Men will be taught that an existence of play , sustained by the blood of other creatures , is a good existence for gnats and jelly - fish ; but not for men that neither days , nor lives , can be made ...
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... honest , and , generally , though not always , useful ; while the fine work is , a great deal of it , foolish and false , as well as fine , and therefore dishonourable ; but when both kinds are equally well and worthily done , the ...
... honest , and , generally , though not always , useful ; while the fine work is , a great deal of it , foolish and false , as well as fine , and therefore dishonourable ; but when both kinds are equally well and worthily done , the ...
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... honest thinkers . There's grand head work doing about them ; but much must be discovered , and much attempted in vain , before anything decisive can be told you . Only note these few particulars , which are already sure . 38. As to the ...
... honest thinkers . There's grand head work doing about them ; but much must be discovered , and much attempted in vain , before anything decisive can be told you . Only note these few particulars , which are already sure . 38. As to the ...
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Página 87 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Página 112 - Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them: she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and even trained them to crafts, so that one can weave, another build, another hammer, and the weakest can stand under thirty stone avoirdupois. Nevertheless, amid much weeping and swearing, they are selected; all dressed in red; and shipped away, at the public charges, some two thousand miles, or say only to the south of Spain; and fed there till wanted.
Página 75 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Página 112 - Fire!' is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for.
Página 69 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright Neither by day nor yet by night • They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
Página 111 - What, speaking in quite unofficial language, is the net purport and upshot of war? To my own knowledge, for example, there dwell and toil, in the British village of Dumdrudge, usually some five hundred souls. From these, by certain 'natural enemies' of the French there are successively selected, during the French war, say thirty able-bodied men : Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them : she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and even trained...
Página 67 - — (we ought to have an opposite word, hateliness, to be said of the things which deserve to be hated) ; and it is not an indifferent nor optional thing whether we love this or that ; but it is just the vital function of all our being. What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are ; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character.
Página 58 - Then, the third character of right childhood is to be Loving and Generous. Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back. It loves everything near it, when it is a right kind of child — would...
Página 87 - Cross, the Milanese boar, semi-fleeced, with the town of Gennesaret proper, in the field; and the legend, "In the best market," and her corslet, of leather, folded over her heart in the shape of a purse, with thirty slits in it, for a piece of money to go in at, on each day of the month. And I doubt not but that people would come to see your exchange, and its goddess, with applause.
Página 208 - drains bogs, settles colonies in the waste places of his dominions, cuts canals ; unweariedly encourages trade and work. The Friedrich Wilhelm's Canal, which still carries tonnage from the Oder to the Spree, is a monument of his zeal in this way ; creditable with the means he had. To the poor French Protestants in the Edict-ofNantes affair, he was like an express benefit of Heaven ; one helper appointed to whom the help itself was profitable. He munificently welcomed them to Brandenburg ; showed...