The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and WarWiley, 1874 - 127 páginas |
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... 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 , some astonished condition of soul , unwillingly released . It made all the ...
... 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 , some astonished condition of soul , unwillingly released . It made all the ...
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... field sown , as to get an eared field stripped ; and contend who should build villages , instead of who should ' carry ' them . Are not all forms of heroism , conceivable in doing these serviceable deeds ? You doubt who is strongest ...
... field sown , as to get an eared field stripped ; and contend who should build villages , instead of who should ' carry ' them . Are not all forms of heroism , conceivable in doing these serviceable deeds ? You doubt who is strongest ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... are king of a small part of the nation , and lord over the means of its maintenance - over field , or mill , or mine , are you to take all the produce of that piece of the foundation of national existence for yourself TRAFFIC . 75.
... are king of a small part of the nation , and lord over the means of its maintenance - over field , or mill , or mine , are you to take all the produce of that piece of the foundation of national existence for yourself TRAFFIC . 75.
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... fields of England are furnace- burnt into the likeness of the plain of Dura : this idol , forbid- den to us , first of all idols , by our own Master and faith ; for- bidden to us also by every human lip that has ever , in any age or ...
... fields of England are furnace- burnt into the likeness of the plain of Dura : this idol , forbid- den to us , first of all idols , by our own Master and faith ; for- bidden to us also by every human lip that has ever , in any age or ...
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The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War John Ruskin Visualização completa - 1885 |
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architecture Athena battle beautiful black country brave build captain Carshalton character charity child Christian churches cockatrice costermonger cricket death distinction divine dress duty England English Exchange faith fight friends gather gentlemen Goddess of Getting-on golden bowl Gothic Gothic architecture Greek ground hand HARVARD COLLEGE hear heart heaven honest honour human idle idle class iron justice king kingdom kinghood labour live Lombardy matter means merely merry England mind moral nation nature never noble November 25 object once paid Parthenon peace play pleasant Plutus poor pray quarrel question race religion rich slaves soldiers soldiership soul speak spend stones suppose sword talk taste tell thing thought to-night true trust Tuscany virtue waste wholly wisdom wise word word play world turns worship yourselves youth
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Página 96 - 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. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart: were the entirest strangers: nay. in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! Their governors had fallen out: and instead of shooting...
Página 70 - 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 58 - 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 119 - A youth thoughtless ! when all the happiness of his home for ever depends on the chances, or the passions, of an hour ! A youth thoughtless ! when the career of all his days depends on the opportunity of a moment ! A youth thoughtless ! when his every act is a foundation-stone of future conduct, and every imagination a fountain of life or death ! Be thoughtless in any after years, rather than now — though, indeed, there is only one place where a man may be nobly thoughtless, — his deathbed. No...
Página 89 - I found, in brief, that all great nations learned their truth of word, and strength of thought, in war; that they were nourished in war, and wasted by peace ; taught by war, and deceived by peace ; trained by war, and betrayed by peace ; — in a word, that they were born in war, and expired in peace.
Página 74 - ... steam engine at each end, and two in the middle, and a chimney three hundred feet high. In this mill are to be in constant employment from eight hundred to a thousand workers, who never drink, never strike, always go to church on Sunday, and always express themselves in respectful language.
Página xvi - Christ,' ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure. On the contrary, a brave belief in death has been assuredly held by many not ignoble persons, and it is a sign of the last depravity in the Church itself, when it assumes that such a belief is inconsistent with either purity of character, or energy of hand. The shortness of life is not, to any rational person, a conclusive reason for wasting the space of it which may be granted him; nor...
Página 49 - Permit me, therefore, to fortify this old dogma of mine somewhat. Taste is not only a part and an index of morality — it is the ONLY morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is, 'What do you like?
Página 58 - And there, lying under the broad night, he has a dream ; and he sees a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reaches to heaven, and the angels of God are ascending and descending upon it.
Página 38 - ... the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost": joy, that is to say, in the holy, healthful and helpful Spirit.