The Crown of Wild OliveG. Allen, 1882 - 210 páginas |
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... , and to rise renewed of plumage , as a dove that is covered with silver , and her feathers like gold ; - for these , indeed , it may be permissible to waste their numbered moments , through faith 16 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE .
... , and to rise renewed of plumage , as a dove that is covered with silver , and her feathers like gold ; - for these , indeed , it may be permissible to waste their numbered moments , through faith 16 THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE .
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John Ruskin. be permissible to waste their numbered moments , through faith in a future of innumerable hours ; to these , in their weakness , it may be conceded that they should tamper with sin which can only bring forth fruit of ...
John Ruskin. be permissible to waste their numbered moments , through faith in a future of innumerable hours ; to these , in their weakness , it may be conceded that they should tamper with sin which can only bring forth fruit of ...
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... waste it . Of all wastes , the greatest waste that you can commit is the waste of labour . If you went down in the morning into your dairy , and found that your youngest child had got down before you ; and that he and the cat were at ...
... waste it . Of all wastes , the greatest waste that you can commit is the waste of labour . If you went down in the morning into your dairy , and found that your youngest child had got down before you ; and that he and the cat were at ...
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... waste , and no sin ! 46. IV . Then , lastly , wise work is CHEERFUL , as a child's work is . And now I want you to take one thought home with you , and let it stay with you . Everybody in this room has been taught to pray daily , ' Thy ...
... waste , and no sin ! 46. IV . Then , lastly , wise work is CHEERFUL , as a child's work is . And now I want you to take one thought home with you , and let it stay with you . Everybody in this room has been taught to pray daily , ' Thy ...
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... waste an instant's time , there- fore the sin of idleness is a thousand - fold greater in you than in other youths ... wastes , not time only , but the interest and energy of your minds . Of all the un- gentlemanly habits into which you ...
... waste an instant's time , there- fore the sin of idleness is a thousand - fold greater in you than in other youths ... wastes , not time only , but the interest and energy of your minds . Of all the un- gentlemanly habits into which you ...
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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.