The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and WarWiley, 1874 - 127 páginas |
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... , —the food and air will finally not be there , and he will not get them , to his great and final incon- venience . So that , conclusively , in political as in house- hold economy , the great question is , not so X PREFACE .
... , —the food and air will finally not be there , and he will not get them , to his great and final incon- venience . So that , conclusively , in political as in house- hold economy , the great question is , not so X PREFACE .
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Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War John Ruskin. hold economy , the great question is , not so much what money you have in your pocket , as what you will buy with it , and do with it . I have been long accustomed , as all men engaged ...
Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War John Ruskin. hold economy , the great question is , not so much what money you have in your pocket , as what you will buy with it , and do with it . I have been long accustomed , as all men engaged ...
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... hold you for an accursed person , and shake off the dust from their feet at you . And the more I thought over what I had got to say , the less I found I could say it , without some refer- ence to this intangible or intractable part of ...
... hold you for an accursed person , and shake off the dust from their feet at you . And the more I thought over what I had got to say , the less I found I could say it , without some refer- ence to this intangible or intractable part of ...
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... at their peril . I was always en- couraged by supposing my hearers to hold such belief . To these , if to any , I once had hope of addressing , with ac- ceptance , words which insisted on the guilt of pride XIV PREFACE .
... at their peril . I was always en- couraged by supposing my hearers to hold such belief . To these , if to any , I once had hope of addressing , with ac- ceptance , words which insisted on the guilt of pride XIV PREFACE .
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... believe in immortality , so far as to avoid pre- paration for death ; and in mortality , so far as to avoid pre paration for anything after death . Whereas , a wise man will at least hold himself prepared for one or other of PREFACE . XV.
... believe in immortality , so far as to avoid pre- paration for death ; and in mortality , so far as to avoid pre paration for anything after death . Whereas , a wise man will at least hold himself prepared for one or other of PREFACE . XV.
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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.