Sesame and Lilies: Three Lectures, Delivered in 1864-1868,Millar, 1884 - 158 páginas |
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... whole life , and of all the lives over which you have power , depends as literally on your own common sense and discretion as the ex- cellence and order of the feast of a day . Think carefully and bravely over these things , and you ...
... whole life , and of all the lives over which you have power , depends as literally on your own common sense and discretion as the ex- cellence and order of the feast of a day . Think carefully and bravely over these things , and you ...
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... whole , the strongest impulsive influence of average humanity : the greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise , as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure . I am not about to attack or ...
... whole , the strongest impulsive influence of average humanity : the greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise , as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure . I am not about to attack or ...
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... whole meaning you will not for a long time arrive in any wise . Not that he does not say what he means , and in strong words too ; but he cannot say it all ; and what is more strange , will not , but in a hidden way and in parables , in ...
... whole meaning you will not for a long time arrive in any wise . Not that he does not say what he means , and in strong words too ; but he cannot say it all ; and what is more strange , will not , but in a hidden way and in parables , in ...
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... whole- some it would be for the many simple persons who worship the Letter of God's Word instead of its Spirit , ( just as other idolaters worship His picture instead of His presence , ) if , in such places ( for instance ) as Acts xix ...
... whole- some it would be for the many simple persons who worship the Letter of God's Word instead of its Spirit , ( just as other idolaters worship His picture instead of His presence , ) if , in such places ( for instance ) as Acts xix ...
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... whole life to learn any language perfectly . But you can easily ascertain the meanings through which the English word has passed ; and those which in a good writer's work it must still bear . And now , merely for example's sake , I will ...
... whole life to learn any language perfectly . But you can easily ascertain the meanings through which the English word has passed ; and those which in a good writer's work it must still bear . And now , merely for example's sake , I will ...
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agate Aiguille Verte Athena beautiful believe better build character Christian Chrysaor clay crystals dear death diamonds divine DORA dream dress duty Egypt Egyptian England English epidote eyes faith fancy fault feel fireflies FLORRIE foliated Fra Angelico getically girls give gold Gothic Gothic architecture Greek hand hear heart heaven honor human ISABEL JOHN RUSKIN KATHLEEN kind kings know your places labor least LECTURE less LILY live look LUCILLA MARY mean merely mica mind nation nature Neith ness never Nitocris noble once passion peace perhaps person piece play poor Pthah pyramid quartz question rightly rock SIBYL soul speak stones strength suppose sure talk tell there's thing thought tion true truth understand VIOLET virtue wholly wise woman words wrong yourselves
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Página 16 - That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed...
Página 103 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Página 17 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Blind mouths! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have learned aught else the least That to the faithful herdman's art belongs!
Página 57 - A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good ; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil : for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Página 11 - And, therefore, first of all, I tell you earnestly and authoritatively (I know I am right in this), you must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable — nay, letter by letter.
Página 39 - 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?' Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what you are.
Página 12 - ... you might read all the books in the British Museum (if you could live long enough), and remain an utterly 'illiterate...
Página 38 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Página 58 - The man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for speculation and invention; his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle - and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement and decision.
Página 60 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the storm Grace that shall mould the maiden's form By silent sympathy.