The Crown of Wild OliveG. Allen, 1882 - 210 páginas |
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... once for all ; but if I pay them to dig iron out of my ground , and work it , and sell it , I can charge rent for the ground , and per - centage both on the manufacture and the sale , and make my capital profitable in these three bye ...
... once for all ; but if I pay them to dig iron out of my ground , and work it , and sell it , I can charge rent for the ground , and per - centage both on the manufacture and the sale , and make my capital profitable in these three bye ...
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... - tion . It made all the difference , in asserting any principle of war , whether one assumed that a dis- charge of artillery would merely knead down a certain quantity of once living clay into a level line , INTRODUCTION . II.
... - tion . It made all the difference , in asserting any principle of war , whether one assumed that a dis- charge of artillery would merely knead down a certain quantity of once living clay into a level line , INTRODUCTION . II.
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John Ruskin. quantity of once living clay into a level line , as in a brick - field ; or whether , out of every separately Christian - named portion of the ruinous heap , there went out , into the smoke and dead - fallen air of battle ...
John Ruskin. quantity of once living clay into a level line , as in a brick - field ; or whether , out of every separately Christian - named portion of the ruinous heap , there went out , into the smoke and dead - fallen air of battle ...
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... once had hope of addressing , with acceptance , words which insisted on the guilt of pride , and the futility of avarice ; from these , if from any , I once expected ratification of a political economy , which asserted that the life was ...
... once had hope of addressing , with acceptance , words which insisted on the guilt of pride , and the futility of avarice ; from these , if from any , I once expected ratification of a political economy , which asserted that the life was ...
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... once expiring , will never be recalled to whisper against you a word of accusing ; -they and you , as you think , shall lie down together in the dust , and the worms cover you ; —and for them there shall be no consolation , and on you ...
... once expiring , will never be recalled to whisper against you a word of accusing ; -they and you , as you think , shall lie down together in the dust , and the worms cover you ; —and for them there shall be no consolation , and on you ...
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Adalbert Albert the Bear architecture armies Ascanien Athena battle battle of Warsaw beautiful become Brandenburg brave build captain Carlyle Carshalton character child Christian churches classes cockatrice CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE costermonger creature Critias death divine duty earth England English faith fighting Friedrich gentlemen Goddess gold Gothic Gothic architecture Greek hand hand-labour happy hear heart heaven Henry the Fowler Hohenzollerns honest honour human idle iron JOHN RUSKIN justice keep kings knights labour lecture live Lübeck Markgraves matter means mind nation nature never noble Nüremberg ORPINGTON peace play poor pray Protestantism Prussia quarrel question race religion rich soldiers soul speak spend stone strength suppose teach tell thing thought Triglaph true trust truth virtue waste Wends wholly Wilhelm wisdom wise words yourselves
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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 110 - 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 110 - 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 109 - 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 64 - All good architecture is the expression of national life and character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.
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 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.