The Crown of Wild Olive: Four Letters on Industry and WarSmith, Elder, & Company, 1873 - 210 páginas |
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... build the ' many mansions ' up above there ; and the angelic sur- veyors who measured that four - square city with their measuring reeds - I wonder what they think , or are supposed to think , of the laying out of ground by this nation ...
... build the ' many mansions ' up above there ; and the angelic sur- veyors who measured that four - square city with their measuring reeds - I wonder what they think , or are supposed to think , of the laying out of ground by this nation ...
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... it is more than we ought ) for their money : but , once having got it , the fortified millionaire can make everybody who passes below pay toll to his million , and build another tower of his money castle . And I. - WORK . 39.
... it is more than we ought ) for their money : but , once having got it , the fortified millionaire can make everybody who passes below pay toll to his million , and build another tower of his money castle . And I. - WORK . 39.
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Four Letters on Industry and War John Ruskin. and build another tower of his money castle . And I can tell you , the poor vagrants by the roadside suffer now quite as much from the bag - baron , as ever they did from the crag - baron ...
Four Letters on Industry and War John Ruskin. and build another tower of his money castle . And I can tell you , the poor vagrants by the roadside suffer now quite as much from the bag - baron , as ever they did from the crag - baron ...
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... build upon charity . You must build upon justice , for this main reason , that you have not , at first , charity to build with . It is the last reward of good work . Do justice to your brother ( you can do that , whether you love him or ...
... build upon charity . You must build upon justice , for this main reason , that you have not , at first , charity to build with . It is the last reward of good work . Do justice to your brother ( you can do that , whether you love him or ...
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... build : but earnestly and seriously asking you to pardon me , I am going to do nothing of the kind . I cannot talk , or at least can say very little , about this same Exchange . I must talk of quite other things , though not willingly ...
... build : but earnestly and seriously asking you to pardon me , I am going to do nothing of the kind . I cannot talk , or at least can say very little , about this same Exchange . I must talk of quite other things , though not willingly ...
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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 66 - And the entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things : — not merely industrious, but to love industry— not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
Página 158 - compulsory education " which the people now ask of you is not catechism, but drill. It is not teaching the youth of England the shapes of letters and the tricks of numbers ; and then leaving them to turn their arithmetic to roguery, and their literature to lust. It is, on the contrary, training them into the perfect exercise and kingly continence of their bodies and souls. It is a painful, continual, and difficult work ; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise,...