The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 6George Allen, 1873 |
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... noble by doing nothing in them : that the best prayer at the beginning of a day is that we may not lose its moments ; and the best grace before meat , the consciousness that we have justly earned our dinner . And when we have this much ...
... noble by doing nothing in them : that the best prayer at the beginning of a day is that we may not lose its moments ; and the best grace before meat , the consciousness that we have justly earned our dinner . And when we have this much ...
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... noble life in Italy with , and to murder Polish women and children with ; and that you will give at once , because they pay you interest for it . Now , in order to pay you that interest , they must tax every working peasant in their ...
... noble life in Italy with , and to murder Polish women and children with ; and that you will give at once , because they pay you interest for it . Now , in order to pay you that interest , they must tax every working peasant in their ...
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... noble work , and the hand's the ignoble . Therefore , of all hand work whatsoever , neces- sary for the maintenance of life , those old words , ' In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread , ' indicate that the inherent nature of it ...
... noble work , and the hand's the ignoble . Therefore , of all hand work whatsoever , neces- sary for the maintenance of life , those old words , ' In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread , ' indicate that the inherent nature of it ...
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... noble child trusts him at last wholly , gives him its hand , and will walk blindfold with him , if he bids it . And that is the true character of all good men also , as obedient workers , or soldiers under captains . They must trust ...
... noble child trusts him at last wholly , gives him its hand , and will walk blindfold with him , if he bids it . And that is the true character of all good men also , as obedient workers , or soldiers under captains . They must trust ...
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... noble . 71. And now note that both these religions— Greek and Mediæval - perished by falsehood in their own main purpose . The Greek religion of Wisdom perished in a false philosophy -'Oppositions of science , falsely so called . ' The ...
... noble . 71. And now note that both these religions— Greek and Mediæval - perished by falsehood in their own main purpose . The Greek religion of Wisdom perished in a false philosophy -'Oppositions of science , falsely so called . ' 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...